Senior Android Engineer
Senior Android Engineer
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Were on a mission to work for everyone.
Were waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well aspersonal and business bank accounts we offer joint accounts accounts for 1617 year olds a free kids account and credit cards in the UK with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save invest and combine their pensions with us.
With our hot coral cards and getpaidearly feature combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
Were not about selling products we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo
London / UK RemoteShare Options Benefits Technology
About our Mobile Engineering Team:
There are over 20 Android engineers at Monzo and were looking for one more to join the team. We have several nongraduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things wed love to talk to you.
What youll be working on:
At Monzo youll get to work with industry standard tools and technologies and help us define what great looks like for Android engineers.
Our app is almost 100 Kotlin built using MVVM (Model View ViewModel) and Coordinators and modularised by product feature.
We use RxJava Retrofit and Moshi for API calls and Dagger for dependency injection. Room is our choice for persistence and Repositories for interacting with them. We have built out our design system in Compose.
We use GitHub Pull Requests to do code reviews and write unit tests for our ViewModels Coordinators and any other classes which contain logic.We write tests for all of our Compose screens and snapshot test them with Happo. We also use Espresso to test flows which are executed through Firebase Test Lab and Circle CI.
Weve previously written about building Monzo Chat on Android which goes into detail on some of these elements.
Your daytoday:
This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As an Android engineer at Monzo youll work in a small autonomous product squad alongside iOS Engineers Backend Engineers User Researchers Product Designers Product Managers QA Testers Data Scientists and Business Analysts.
Your mission will depend on the squad but currently mobile engineers are working on the core personal banking experience paid products lending products business banking and internal operations. We also have a small squad dedicated to enabling other mobile engineers to move faster.
You and your team will be responsible for an overall company goal rather than building a specific feature youll have the opportunity to have impact on both what we build and how we build it.
Every week we meet as a discipline to discuss tools techniques problems were encountering across the company and work together to improve our codebase and processes.
Youll report to an engineering manager who will meet with you every 2 weeks 1:1 their mission is to help you develop and grow as an engineer.
You should apply if:
Were looking for Android engineers with strong product sensibilities. Youll care about the impact your work has on our customers and optimise for impact rather than the number of lines of code you output.
You should apply if:
- Youve shipped and iterated on at least one app in the Play Store
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make datainformed decisions
- You love turning excellent design into beautiful products
- Youre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- You have an understanding of the principles of computer science
The Interview Process:
Our interview process involves three main stages:
- Initial Call
- Take home task or pair coding exercise
- Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview
Our average process takes around 23 weeks but we will always work around your availability.
You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you
do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please us at any point on
Please also use that email to let us know if theres anything we can do to make your application process easier for you because of disability neurodiversity or any other personal reason
One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process for extra details hints and tips please see here.
Whats in it for you:
Share Options Benefits
We can help you relocate to the UK
We can sponsor visas.
This role can be based in our London office but were 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 at times that suit you and your team.
Learning budget of 1000 a year for books training courses and conferences
And much more see our full list of benefits here
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are actively creating an equitable environment for every Monzonaut to thrive.
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023Gender Pay Gap Report.
Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin or veteran neurodiversity or disability status.
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo were embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.
Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin or veteran neurodiversity or disability status.
If you have a preferred name please use it to apply. We dont need full or birth names at application stage
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
