Android Engineer

Location: Barcelona

Department: Engineering

📍 Barcelona, Spain | 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance  + benefits 
Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office

 ⭐ Our Mobile Engineering team

There are ~40 Android engineers at Monzo and we’re looking for more to join the team. We have several non-graduates; 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, we’d love to talk to you.

 Monzo works in small, interdisciplinary teams

We have around 400 engineers out of roughly 4,500 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and were happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here youd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by...

We’re searching for product-focused Android engineers to evolve our native mobile app. You’ll take pride in building polished user experiences, and you’ll balance the need for well-tested resilient code with moving fast and iterating. 

You’ll be working on a product that is a part of day to day life for more than 11 million people already, and your work here will shape the way that people interact with their finances.

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, and Data Scientists.

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. Mobile engineers at Monzo work on everything from the personal banking product to customer support tools. We also have a small mobile platform squad dedicated to enabling other engineers to move faster.

Every week we meet as an Android 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 1-2 weeks 1:1. They’re dedicated to helping you grow and develop as an engineer.

Our Android app

Our app is 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. We’re starting to use Coroutines for most new features. Room is our choice for persistence, and we use repositories for interacting with data. We’ve built out our design system with 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 via our continuous integration system.

We’ve previously written about building Monzo Chat on Android, which goes into detail on some of these elements.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You care about the impact your work has on our customers, and optimise for outcomes rather than the number of lines of code you output
• You’re excited about and have experience in programming in Kotlin
• You’ve 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 data-informed decisions
• You love turning excellent design into beautiful products
• You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• You have an understanding computer science principles

Were on the look out for L30 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework you will be interviewed across the whole framework, so if youre not sure what level youre aiming for chat to your recruiter! 

🙌 What’s in it for you:

💰Base salary range for this role is depending on experience + equity + stock options & benefits 

⏰ 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 €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

Our interview process involves three main stages: 

1. Initial Call 
2. Take home task or pair coding exercise 
3. Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview 

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

There’s a detailed blog on the interview process, for extra details, hints and tips.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

If youre successful in applying for this role, well work with you to find a start date. In some cases, there might be a delay in when you can be released from your current role so that we can make sure things continue to run smoothly. We’ll be sure to communicate this with you and keep you updated.