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Monzo

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72open roles
21new in 30 days
17closed in 30 days
40remote-eligible
acceleratinghiring velocity

What they're building

Building out Monzo as a multi-market European bank strong signal

Today: Now more than 16 million personal and business customers trust Monzo with their banking.

Roles: Data Director, EU · Engineering Director, EU · Head of Credit Risk Oversight · Senior Fraud Operations Manager · Senior Risk & Compliance Officer (Madrid) · Senior Risk & Compliance Officer (Barcelona)

Requirements mention: Monzo is building a bank for Europe, and lending sits at the heart of that plan · building Monzo's presence across Europe from the ground up · Implementing Monzo's Risk Management Framework in Spain · Payment Services compliance

Inference: Monzo is hiring EU data and engineering leadership in roles based in the UK or remote (the Data role also in Barcelona), alongside local risk, credit and operations roles in Dublin, Barcelona and Madrid.

Lending and Borrowing growth, including the EU launch of lending products strong signal

Today: Get a credit card with Monzo magic.

Roles: Credit Risk Manager · Senior Credit Risk Manager, Credit Platform · Credit Risk Manager, Portfolio Management · Senior Machine Learning Manager, Borrowing · Credit Risk Oversight Manager · Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)

Requirements mention: lending economics · credit valuation infrastructure · NPV modelling framework · as the Borrowing business grows in Ireland and launches across the EU

Inference: the credit and decisioning roles point to launching lending products in EU markets on a shared credit platform, which the postings describe as serving 'products and markets'.

Financial crime and fraud defences, with an EU operations build-out strong signal

Today: Security you can bank on

Roles: Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime · Data Science Manager, Financial Crime · Senior FinCrime Operations Manager · Senior Fraud Operations Manager · Team Manager, Financial Crime, EU (Spanish Speaking) · Senior Financial Crime Investigator - EU, Spanish & English

Requirements mention: building technology at the heart of screening, onboarding and transaction monitoring mitigation strategies for Monzo's EU expansion · AML/CTF · real time Machine Learning models · Fluent in Spanish

Inference: alongside UK-wide fraud and transaction-monitoring ML work, Monzo is setting up EU screening and monitoring operations in Dublin. It is also hiring a Spanish-speaking team manager and investigator, both based in the UK.

Business Banking for small businesses in the UK and new markets strong signal

Today: Business bank accounts; the site cites more than 16 million personal and business customers.

Roles: Sales Account Executive · Senior Product Marketing Manager, Business Banking · Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Business Banking · Senior Product Director, Business Banking · Senior Technical Program Manager

Requirements mention: Small Business sales · go-to-market strategy · launch strategy · Business Banking features, services and integrations that help build Monzo into the financial control centre for SMEs

Inference: the business banking roles point to a go-to-market push for small businesses. The London Sales Account Executive role focuses on UK small and medium business acquisition, and product marketing covers new markets.

Payments infrastructure and multi-market payments moderate signal

Today: Current accounts and cards used for everyday and travel spending ('The bank made for travel').

Roles: Data Director, Payments · Lead Product Manager, Payments · Director of Product Design · Senior Legal Counsel, Digital Assets and Payments

Requirements mention: modernises its payments infrastructure and scales into new markets · ledgers · reconciliation · digital assets and emerging payment technologies

Inference: Monzo is rebuilding payments and ledger infrastructure to support more markets. The legal role shows digital assets are on the agenda, but no product is named.

Applied machine learning and generative AI in customer operations and search moderate signal

Today: App-based banking with 24/7 support

Roles: Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Customer Operations · Staff Technical Program Manager, Operations · Model Validation Senior Manager · Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search

Requirements mention: LLMs · RAG · human-in-the-loop system that augments automation with the efforts of our support workforce · AI-powered customer support · Generative AI evaluation frameworks · personalised ranking algorithms

Inference: the clearest generative AI work is in customer operations, covering LLM and RAG-based routing and AI-powered support. Second-line validation covers generative AI built in Operations squads. Search for the Monzo Co-pilot is described in terms of ranking and embeddings rather than LLMs.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Engineering16
Data14
Finance10
Risk & Compliance7
Marketing & Community6
Product5
Customer Operations4
Operations4
Borrowing3
Design2
Special Projects1

Of 71 open roles, Engineering (16) and Data (14) lead, but 11 of the 16 Engineering roles were opened in 2023–2025 and look like long-running hiring; recent openings lean towards Data, Risk & Compliance (7), Finance (8, covering tax, controls and regulatory reporting), Borrowing and EU roles, with Borrowing, Customer Operations, Marketing & Community, Design and Operations at 4 each.

Who they need

Seniority: Senior (26), manager (20), staff (10) and director (7) roles dominate; only 3 mid-level and 2 intern roles are listed.

Skills named most: SQL (22), Python (18), Looker (17), AWS (11), Go (10), React (10), Cassandra (9), Kafka (9), Kubernetes (9), Docker (9), self-serve analytics (7), Envoy Proxy (7)

Locations: 35 roles are listed as Cardiff, London or Remote (UK), 15 as London, 7 as Barcelona, 6 as Dublin and 1 as Madrid; 42 roles are marked remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Check each posting's location before applying: many roles say Cardiff, London or Remote (UK), and remote roles are tied to the UK. Engineering postings opened in 2023–2025 are long-running, so newer Data, credit, risk and EU roles may move faster. Match your Spanish fluency, lending or financial crime experience to the specific hard requirements listed.

If you're selling or recruiting: 21 roles opened in the last 30 days, against 12 in the prior 30, and 6 closed. Focus on the EU risk, credit and operations roles in Dublin, Barcelona and Madrid, the Payments leadership roles, Finance (8 roles across tax, controls and regulatory reporting), and the London Sales Account Executive and business banking roles for UK small business acquisition.

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Open roles (72)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Lead Product Manager, GrowthProductLondon2026-10-23
Product Manager, FinanceProductLondon2026-10-23
Senior Product Manager, Web GrowthProductLondon2026-10-23
Vulnerable Customer AdvisorCustomer OperationsRemote (UK) (remote)2026-10-22
Senior Writer, BorrowingMarketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-22
Prudential Risk ManagerRisk & ComplianceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-21
Strategy & Commercial ManagerSpecial ProjectsMadrid2026-10-21
Senior PR and Communications Manager (12 month fixed-term contract)Marketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-19
Senior Growth Marketing Executive, Business Banking EUMarketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-19
Model Validation Senior ManagerRisk & ComplianceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-16
Sales Account ExecutiveOperationsLondon2026-10-15
Team Manager, Financial Crime, EU (Spanish Speaking)Customer OperationsCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-13
Credit Risk ManagerBorrowingDublin2026-10-08
Senior Service Analyst, Workforce ManagementCustomer OperationsCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-07
Data Director, EUDataBarcelona; Cardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-07
Regulatory Reporting AnalystFinanceLondon2026-10-06
Controls Product Senior ManagerOperationsLondon; Remote (UK) (remote)2026-10-02
Staff Data ScientistDataBarcelona; Cardiff, London or Remote (UK); London (remote)2026-09-30
Credit Risk Oversight ManagerRisk & ComplianceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-09-28
Associate Data Scientist - InternDataLondon2026-09-28
Associate Software Engineer - InternEngineeringLondon2026-09-28
Senior Fraud Operations ManagerOperationsDublin2026-09-23
Senior FinCrime Operations ManagerOperationsDublin2026-09-23
Transfer Pricing Tax Manager FinanceLondon2026-09-22
Staff Technical Program Manager, OperationsEngineeringLondon2026-09-22
Senior Financial Crime Investigator - EU, Spanish & English Customer OperationsRemote (UK) (remote)2026-09-17
Operational Tax, Senior ManagerFinanceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-09-15
Technology and Operational Risk Senior ManagerRisk & ComplianceDublin2026-09-02
Senior Internal Controls ManagerFinanceDublin2026-09-01
Senior Financial Control Analyst FinanceLondon2026-08-26
Anaplan Support AnalystFinanceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-08-24
Data Director, PaymentsDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-08-21
Senior Finance Business PartnerFinanceLondon2026-08-17
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Business BankingMarketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-08-12
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Business BankingDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-08-11
Finance Analyst FinanceLondon2026-08-04
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Customer OperationsDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-08-03
Senior Risk & Compliance OfficerRisk & ComplianceMadrid2026-07-31
Senior Risk & Compliance OfficerRisk & ComplianceBarcelona2026-07-31
Senior Financial Reporting AnalystFinanceLondon2026-07-31
Senior Credit Risk Manager, Credit Platform BorrowingLondon; Remote (UK) (remote)2026-07-30
Senior Technical Program ManagerEngineeringLondon2026-07-24
Senior Data ScientistDataBarcelona2026-07-17
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrimeDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-07-08
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, SearchDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-07-08
Engineering Director, EUEngineeringBarcelona; Cardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-06-24
Senior Machine Learning Manager, BorrowingBorrowingCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-06-24
Staff Analytics EngineerDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-06-24
Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)Risk & ComplianceCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-06-23
Product Marketing LeadMarketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-05-29
Director of Product DesignDesignCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-05-27
Finance Forecasting ModellerFinanceUK2026-05-08
Senior Product Marketing ManagerMarketing & CommunityCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2026-04-29
Product Director, Flex (Borrowing) ProductLondon2026-04-02
Senior Product Director, Business BankingProductLondon2026-03-18
Android EngineerEngineeringBarcelona2025-10-21
Data Science ManagerDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2025-08-26
Engineering ManagerEngineeringBarcelona2025-07-31
Lead Product DesignerDesignCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2025-04-04
Software Engineer IIIEngineeringBarcelona2025-04-04
Senior iOS EngineerEngineeringBarcelona2025-03-06
Staff Backend EngineerEngineeringBarcelona2025-02-25
Senior Software EngineerEngineeringBarcelona2025-02-25
Backend Engineer III EngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2025-02-17
Senior Backend EngineerEngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2025-02-14
Staff Backend Engineer EngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2025-02-14
Senior Engineering ManagerEngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2024-11-15
Lead Data ScientistDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2024-11-04
Senior Data ScientistDataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2024-08-15
Senior Staff Backend EngineerEngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2024-06-12
Data Science Manager, Financial Crime DataCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2024-02-29
Engineering ManagerEngineeringCardiff, London or Remote (UK) (remote)2023-04-28