Staff Backend Engineer, Search

Requirements:

• You have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products.
• You have real-world experience working with Machine Learning specialists on search ranking problems.
• You solve problems end-to-end, from client applications to backend infrastructure.
• You have led technically across 3-4 teams to deliver customer-facing features that leverage ML.
• You have a quantitative mindset: you care about outcomes and you make data-informed decisions.
• You’re comfortable working in a cross-functional team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and partner teams resolve that ambiguity.
• You have demonstrable experience working with stakeholders, especially non-technical stakeholders at the senior level.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner with engineering leadership in the collective and provide technical leadership on the search domain across Monzo’s broader engineering organisation.
• Work collaboratively with leaders in product, data, research, and design to identify and execute on opportunities that further the organisation’s goals and strategy.
• Oscillate between contributing to high-level planning and strategy and organisational leadership and diving deep into the execution of problems and getting hands-on.
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for the most complex systems in the collective.
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar.
• Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers.

Perks and Benefits:

• 💰£140,000 - £165,000 ➕ share options.
• ✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
• ✅ We can sponsor your visa.
• 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
• ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.
• ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.