Monzo Blog

This blog explains why design and research is so impactful at Monzo. We explain how we give designers and researchers an abundance of autonomy to help make decisions, and why it makes our team an outlier for those who care about making a difference.

Monzo cares about inclusive hiring in engineering by doing things like advertising our salaries on our job ads, sharing our process transparently, and providing different options for doing different technical interview stages

We built our “unordered concurrent” subscription knowing that we could eventually extend it to support ordering in Kafka

With the arrival of Team, Monzo Business opens its doors to bigger small businesses with a host of brand new features that claim back lost time for business owners and managers, but also everyone else they work with.

Employee expense cards are here to let selected team members spend up to limits that you set for them. And with the added bonus of saving you all time spent on admin.

Monzo runs almost 3,000 microservices to power everything. A core part of being able to run all these systems and features safely is rate limiting. In this blog post we describe how that gets us to doing what we call “distributed rate limiting.”

We built a system to define scheduled jobs that moves away from cron and adds support for timezones, better monitoring and a more delightful developer experience

iPhone and iPad users can now choose their monthly payment right at checkout with Flex on Apple Pay, online and in-app 🎉

How we're building moments of pause into the Monzo app to help protect customers from fraud and purchase scams.

This blog talks about how our Monzo US team revamped the signup process for customers by experimenting with signup funnel improvements, increasing the rate of completion by a massive 400%

We’ve got a lot of value from our microservices architecture (2,800 and counting!), but this architecture is not without its challenges. One of those challenges is how to make sweeping library changes across all those services.

Gain an understanding of how International Payments are sent and received and how we process them at Monzo. We are making this seamless to customers whilst also having a strong focus on development experience

We think there are lots of benefits associated with AI, but we have a human approach to hiring. At every stage there is a person reviewing and making decisions to ensure we're able to bring the best people to Monzo.

If you're new to saving, you might be wondering what APY is and why it's so important. Here's the lowdown…

Today marks an exciting step on the Monzo journey, as we announce interest on Savings Jars. You’ll now be able to earn interest on money saved in your Jars.