Staff Backend Engineer - Search

February 8

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Monzo Bank

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Monzo Bank is a digital bank based in the UK, known for its innovative app offering a wide range of personal banking services. It provides features such as fee-free spending abroad, automatic bill sorting, early salary payments, and round-up savings. Monzo offers various account types, including joint accounts, under 16s accounts, and savings pots with competitive interest rates. Customers can manage savings, investments, and pensions directly through the app, along with credit and loan options. Monzo emphasizes strong security features and customer support, making banking easy and accessible for its users.

Digital Retail Bank • Fintech • digital banking • smartphone

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• We’re looking for somebody with deep experience building, scaling, and tuning complex search products. • This role sits in our Core Banking product collective. • You’ll own 3 key challenges: Launch a global search experience, Scale search, and Optimise results with machine learning models and feedback loops. • As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership on the search domain and work collaboratively with leaders in product, data, research, and design to execute on opportunities.

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. • We’ll help you relocate to the UK. • We can sponsor your visa. • Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well. • All employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers, extra support for your work-from-home setup. • Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.