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

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.

Product Updates
4 May 2022

No card, no problem – view your 3-digit security number in-app

Usually called the CVC, and found on the back of your card.

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Team
28 April 2022

"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.

Overview of Monzo's ML stack
Data
Machine Learning
25 April 2022

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.

Technology
20 April 2022

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.