Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Moving from Data Science into Machine Learning
Rob joined Monzo as a Data Scientist, and recently moved into Machine Learning. Here's his journey!
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.
No card, no problem – view your 3-digit security number in-app
Usually called the CVC, and found on the back of your card.
"At Monzo, it's as easy as it can be for a parent!"
We spoke to parents across Monzo to learn about their experiences of balancing building a bank with taking care of their little ones.
Monzo’s machine learning stack
Neal Lathia, Director of Machine Learning at Monzo gives an overview of Monzo's machine learning platform, the principles behind it, and future plans.
How our Android engineers automated the removal of Kotlin synthetics
Our Mobile Platform team recently faced the challenge of having to remove all synthetic view properties. This post explains how we built a tool to automate the task and the trade-offs we had to consider along the way.
How everyone at Monzo gets involved with testing
Everyone at Monzo gets involved in testing new features and versions of the app before we release them. In this post Sarah, part of our Quality Assurance team, explains the different types of tests we use and how we run them.
Borrowing Data at Monzo
We're hiring for the borrowing data team!