platform engineer in fintech

Monzo provides personal and business banking products in the UK, including bank accounts, credit cards, savings, investments and pensions. The company aims to simplify banking and improve customers’ financial lives through financial products, education and customer service.

• Enhance and maintain foundational platform tools and systems;
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes clusters, AWS infrastructure and Terraform-based configuration management;
• Integrate and manage open-source components to provide robust, scalable primitives for engineering teams;
• Build and maintain services that abstract and orchestrate infrastructure;
• Design and implement backend services, including APIs and controllers, to provide a simplified self-service experience for engineers;
• Develop software for infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management and security tooling.

• Significant professional software engineering experience;
• Experience writing, testing and deploying robust backend services using strongly typed languages;
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP;
• Proficiency with Kubernetes;
• Experience solving problems through automation;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform;
• Curiosity about systems and ability to investigate complex issues;
• Understanding of how modern distributed applications fail and scale;
• Interest in building platforms focused on reliability, performance and developer experience;
• Comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements;
• Nice to have: Direct experience with Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform and Envoy Proxy is not required.

• Incentive Awards tied to your performance;
• Relocation support to the UK is available;
• Visa sponsorship is available;
• Flexible working hours;
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences.