Monzo Blog

At Monzo we’re trying to be an inclusive company that pushes boundaries in an attempt to reach our mission, to “Make money work for everyone”. We are taking steps to ensure everyone can us Monzo independently.

Between 5 April 2023 and 5 April 2024, our median gender pay gap reduced from 8.1% to 6.3%.

Monzo has a huge variety of data roles in our Borrowing team that contribute to developing our credit products. In this blog we tell you what Borrowing at Monzo is, how it fits into Monzo, what the types of roles we hire for, and how to apply.

Nothing brings us more joy than roasting and celebrating millions of people for their spending habits, so we're here to break down exactly how we did it.

We've partnered with SignLive, an online interpreting service for British Sign Language (BSL) so BSL users can chat with our customer support team in real time.

Our Product Designer, Victoria, talks about her learnings from the course '100 Design Projects' she attended this year, including sprinkling your own personality in every project and making sure you reflect on your own creative process.

Learn about equity and loan-to-value (or LTV) with Monzo, whether you're buying your first house or currently looking to remortgage.

Whether you're an aspiring or current homeowner, there are many types of mortgage available. This blog is the Monzo guide to mortgages.

The Monzo guide to remortgaging. We've also partnered with the regulated online mortgage broker, Better.co.uk to help you plan for and navigate every stage of the remortgaging process.

This blog explains why design and research is so impactful at Monzo. We explain how we give designers and researchers an abundance of autonomy to help make decisions, and why it makes our team an outlier for those who care about making a difference.

Monzo cares about inclusive hiring in engineering by doing things like advertising our salaries on our job ads, sharing our process transparently, and providing different options for doing different technical interview stages

We built our “unordered concurrent” subscription knowing that we could eventually extend it to support ordering in Kafka

With the arrival of Team, Monzo Business opens its doors to bigger small businesses with a host of brand new features that claim back lost time for business owners and managers, but also everyone else they work with.

Employee expense cards are here to let selected team members spend up to limits that you set for them. And with the added bonus of saving you all time spent on admin.

Monzo runs almost 3,000 microservices to power everything. A core part of being able to run all these systems and features safely is rate limiting. In this blog post we describe how that gets us to doing what we call “distributed rate limiting.”