[HighlandSpring]

Monzo sounds like a really fun bank to work!

I suspect the technological baggage in finance to be one of the main deterrents for young developers, the people who want to engineer modern, elegant systems and not go into the business of maintaining legacy spaghetti. I imagine you guys are attracting some really high end talent.

My questions are a little more about Monzo as a workplace in general as I will be applying for an internship with you guys.

Is there any Scala in your infrastructure? If not, was it a language that was given much consideration earlier on?

I see Kafka as part of your stack. Are stream processing frameworks like Samza, Spark and Flink found in your infrastructure?

How many developers? What would you estimate the backend/frontend split to be at?

[asherwood]

This might help, Monzo published a blog detailing their technology stack a while ago -

https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...

[HighlandSpring]

Thanks for the link!

I just wanna add that I think it's beyond cool that there's a bank out there that's publishing a dev blog and detailing their tech stack.

[oblio]

Most of the other banks are too ashamed to publish their tech stack. After all, it's kind of hard to attract 25-30 year olds with technologies that had their last major updates before the candidates were born :p