Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
Moving monzo.com
In 2022, we embarked on a long journey to move our main website. The whole process took us from June of 2022 to November of 2023, with plenty of fun curveballs along the way. Let’s dig into what it takes to migrate monzo.com.
How we use design to create business impact
This post delves into how Monzo is building on our product-led growth by adopting new growth design ways of working and how uniquely positioned design is as a business tool for growth. Buckle-up!
How to: set up Auto-exports
A guide for setting up Auto-exports in your Monzo Business app.
How to: add information to transactions (including receipts)
A guide for attaching receipts, updating categories and adding notes to your transactions in the Monzo Business app.
How to: automate tax savings with Tax Pots
A guide for setting up an automated Tax Pot in your Monzo Business app.
How to: integrate your accounting software
A guide for integrating you accounting software in your Monzo Business app.
What are Monzo's technical expectations for Engineering Leaders?
This post will explore how EMs at Monzo continue to leverage their software engineering backgrounds in practice, and how Monzo assesses those skills in our hiring process.
How to create a customer segmentation: choosing the right segmentation approach
Customer segmentation is the art of dividing customers into useful groups, but there are a lot of pitfalls to avoid along the way. Here is Monzo’s guide to help you decide your segmentation approach, collect the right data, and more.
An update on our gender pay gap, 2023
Between 5 April 2022 and 5 April 2023, our median gender pay gap reduced from 9.3% to 8.1%.
How we built a queue on top of Kafka
This blog covers core parts of the journey Constantijn embarked on when he raised his first "small change" pull request, and how over time we have built a rich client library and set of abstractions that sit on top of Kafka
How we unified our customers’ activity on the new home screen
In this blog post, we explore how we built our home screen, a single stream of activity that lets you glance over the latest updates across all your bank accounts! Less searching around, less app-hopping, less confusion.
Building Year in Monzo – as told by engineering
We’ve shared the behind the scenes insights into how we wrote 5 million Years in Monzo, and the magic behind the data. Now we’re going to dig into how we turned this data into the Year in Monzo experience you know and love.
How we built Year in Monzo: unlocking the data magic ✨
Several months back, we got our heads together and started dreaming up Year in Monzo 2023. Here's the data team's story about how we get to where we are today.
How we wrote 5 million Years in Monzo
Running a campaign at this scale is a group effort. The words are especially important because there’s lots of them, and each one counts towards building a delightful experience. Here's the BTS story of how we wrote Year in Monzo this time around.
Securing admin access to Monzo’s platform
Monzo runs on a shared platform of infrastructure that hosts our microservices. In this post, we’ll discuss how we broker access to our infrastructure credentials with a system that is resistant to attacks even from the team that maintains it.