Today is my last day at Monzo.
I joined as a Backend Engineer in July 2021 and have spent the last (almost) five years in the Platform Collective - the team that builds the things the rest of the bank is built on. It has been, by some distance, the best job I’ve had.
Most of that time was on the bank’s data infrastructure: the platforms and pipelines that move data between our services, AWS, and GCP, and the libraries and tooling that sit on top of them - data access, metadata, annotations, retention, right-to-erasure, the graph database that ties it all together. I picked up a healthy amount of incident response along the way too, which is its own kind of education.
I’m not going to try to summarise five years in a blog post. The short version: I got to work on systems that millions of people use every day, alongside some of the sharpest engineers I’ve ever met, in a place that took both the engineering and the customers seriously. That combination is rarer than it should be.
To everyone I worked with - thank you. You made it.
What’s next
I’ll have more to share soon, but I’m very excited about the future.