Monzo Blog

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.”

We built a system to define scheduled jobs that moves away from cron and adds support for timezones, better monitoring and a more delightful developer experience

iPhone and iPad users can now choose their monthly payment right at checkout with Flex on Apple Pay, online and in-app 🎉

How we're building moments of pause into the Monzo app to help protect customers from fraud and purchase scams.

This blog talks about how our Monzo US team revamped the signup process for customers by experimenting with signup funnel improvements, increasing the rate of completion by a massive 400%

We’ve got a lot of value from our microservices architecture (2,800 and counting!), but this architecture is not without its challenges. One of those challenges is how to make sweeping library changes across all those services.

Gain an understanding of how International Payments are sent and received and how we process them at Monzo. We are making this seamless to customers whilst also having a strong focus on development experience

We think there are lots of benefits associated with AI, but we have a human approach to hiring. At every stage there is a person reviewing and making decisions to ensure we're able to bring the best people to Monzo.

We're focused on giving customers protection and peace of mind to make Monzo a safe place to manage your money. Find out how we're achieving this with our latest release: a trio of industry-first security tools

We invited Ben Sauer, author of Death By Screens, to the Monzo London office for a workshop on the art of storytelling in relation to design. We've shared our favourite bits with you in our latest blog.

This guide breaks down the things you need to know about SIPPs - what they are, who they’re for, rules around SIPPs, plus so much more.

We regularly have to create and manage secrets that grant very sensitive privileges, and so we’ve created a new process that makes it fast and easy for us to securely and verifiably perform all kinds of sensitive operations.