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The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.

Product Management
4 July 2022

My first 3 months at Monzo as a Product Manager

Since joining Monzo, Tim has been asked a lot of questions about what it's like to be a product manager here. In this post, Tim explains the interview process, his first few weeks, and how he's finding it all so far.

Product Updates
Diversity and Inclusion
30 June 2022

We’re launching in-app charity donations 💚

You can now donate directly to charities from the Monzo app

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Mental Health
27 June 2022

Living with ADHD can cost an extra £1,600 a year because of difficulties managing your money

We commissioned some new research to learn about the impact that ADHD has on how people manage their money, and how digital banking can help.

Technology
23 June 2022

Redefining our microservice development process

We've been working on some new techniques to help make the development of services easier as we continue to grow and the entire platform can't be run locally.

Technology
22 June 2022

Our mobile release process: An illustrated story

We go into our mobile release process and how we're able to sustain a steady stream of releases as the changes that go into each version increase over time

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Design
21 June 2022

How to increase your impact as a Product Designer

Impact gets used a lot in relation to career progression here at Monzo. What does impact really mean and how do you put it in to practice

Our 2021 diversity and inclusion report
Diversity and Inclusion
21 June 2022

Our 2021 diversity and inclusion report

We’ve made progress on a number of our diversity and inclusion goals, like improving representation of People of Colour and women, reducing our gender pay gap to 4% and increasing the age diversity of our team.

Let's Talk Business
14 June 2022

Virtual Cards, explained - A new feature for Monzo Business Pro

Virtual cards are brand new to Monzo Business Pro. We designed virtual cards to help Business owners and members to stay in control of their business spend and spend safely online.

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Technology
Security
25 May 2022

Humans who can RPC: securing staff access to 2000 microservices

With over 2000 microservices and lots of Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) that are constantly changing, we needed a new way to manage staff access. The Security Platform team explain how we now define RPC permissions directly in proto files.

Let's Talk Business
Business Banking
25 May 2022

Business customers - you can now send money abroad

We’ve partnered with Wise to give you a simple, cheap way to send money abroad. Always using the real exchange rate, with no hidden fees.

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Design
23 May 2022

Pellets not cannonballs: How we experiment at Monzo

In Alex's first 6 months at Monzo, we ran 21 experiments. In this post, Alex explains how we design and run experiments, and how they help us improve the customer experience.

Data
Technology
17 May 2022

Joining Monzo as a Data Scientist

Izak joined Monzo as a data scientist in February. In this post, he shares his journey to Monzo and his early experience in the data discipline, with our data stack, and in the team looking after our Customer Operations.

Technology
15 May 2022

How we deploy to production over 100 times a day

Our success relies on us rapidly shipping new features. To achieve this rapid release cadence, we’ve optimised our engineering culture, tooling, and architecture to go from idea to production as frictionless as possible, without sacrificing safety.

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Data
Machine Learning
12 May 2022

Moving from Data Science into Machine Learning

Rob joined Monzo as a Data Scientist, and recently moved into Machine Learning. Here's his journey!

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Technology
5 May 2022

Becoming an Engineering Manager: 1 year in

Last year, I made the switch into engineering management full time. It’s been an interesting journey with lots of lessons learned.