Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
Demystifying the Backend Engineering interview process
We want to explain exactly what our Backend Engineering interview process entails to make it fair and transparent for all our applicants. This post explains what you should expect from each of our interviewing stages and how to prepare.
How to think about the ROI of data work
Next time someone asks about data ROI, show them this formula.
Preparing for Mobile Interviews at Monzo
Our mobile interview process is designed to learn about your strengths. The post explains the specific skills and abilities that will make you successful in the role and what to expect in the interview process.
Data hiring at Monzo: The interview process
We hire lots of different people in Data who join us to work in a lot of different teams. Our interviews are designed to do two things: teach you about Monzo and capture information that tells us the role is right for you.
International Women's Day 2022
Career stories from the women at Monzo
Everything you need to know about Making Tax Digital
We've teamed up with our friends at Xero to share everything you need to know before 1 April's Making Tax Digital deadline 🧾
Scaling our on-call process
As Monzo has grown, we've continued to change our on-call process so we can keep our systems running smoothly without sacrificing the wellbeing of our engineers. Luke Briscoe explains what we've changed and how.
Mutual Mentoring at Monzo
Our teammates talk us through how taking part in mutual mentoring has helped develop their professional and personal journeys.
How we calculate balances
In June 2021 we started designing and implementing a new way to calculate balances that is more reliable and consistent. This post explains why the old approach needed improving and the changes we made.
What is economic abuse and how to spot it
Economic abuse can be hard to spot, and can happen gradually or subtly, without you even realising. Our Vulnerable Customer Manager Kate Graham explains what economic abuse looks like, and how Monzo can help.
Securely delegating trust with digital signatures and secret storage systems
This post explains how our public key infrastructure uses a combination of different secret storage systems to implement a balance between security assurances and usability.
Processing payments safely at scale
We ship changes many times a day while making sure that payments are processed as expected. This blog post explores how we do this and focuses on two ideas that could be useful outside of the world of payment processing.
How we validated our handling time data
We make lots of decisions based on data from customer support. We need to make sure we can trust this data. In this post, Niamh explains how her team validated the data.
Keep your phone and Monzo app up to date
Your Monzo account is more secure and you have access to all our latest features when your app and phone are up to date.
My first three months at Monzo as a Product Designer
Heldiney joined Monzo in August 2021 as a Product Designer in the Personal Banking team. Here's his early impressions!