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Senior Data Scientist

Hybrid in Barcelona·Added 27 days ago (last checked 19 Oct)

Monzo

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Overview

Work mode
Hybrid, Barcelona
Contract
Permanent contract
English
Required
Experience
Senior level

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Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • You're impact driven and eager to have a real positive impact on the company, product, users and very importantly your colleagues as well
  • You're commercially minded and can put numbers into business perspective
  • You're as comfortable getting hands-on as taking a step back and thinking strategically
  • You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
  • You're a team player whom your colleagues can rely on
  • You have solid grounding in SQL and preferably Python
  • You have experience in conducting large scale A/B experiments

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits

📍Barcelona, Spain

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

📚Learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences

The role

🚀 We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

What you'll do

  • Applying your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our products and how those insights can inform our product strategy
  • Guide and enable product teams to measure things that matter; initiate or help run A/B experiments to keep improving everything we do
  • Drive together with the finance team a unified company-wide understanding of the lifetime value of our users and how different product features are impacting user profitability
  • Liaise with engineers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

How you'll work

📍Barcelona, Spain | 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits
Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office

Hiring process

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  1. Recruiter call

    With a recruiter · 30 min

    Exploratory chat about mutual fit; no heavy preparation needed.

  2. Initial call

    45 min

    Walk through one or two projects you owned end to end.

  3. Take-home task

    In your own time · 1 week

    Practical work mirroring the job, judged on structure and communication; one week to complete.

  4. Case study

    60 min

    Collaborative discussion of how you think, not a test.

  5. Behavioural

    60 min

    Teamwork, decision-making and growth, focused on outcomes.

  • Written for Analytics Engineering roles (May 2026).
  • Interviews aim to surface your strengths, not catch you out.

Hiring process

Our interview process involves three main stages:

1. Recruiter Call
2. Initial Call
3. Technical Interview
4. Final Interview including a case study and collaboration interview

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability.
You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process.

About Monzo

Monzo is a UK-based digital bank and fintech company that offers mobile-first banking services, including current accounts, savings, and lending products. Founded in 2015, it has grown to serve millions of customers across the UK and has expanded into the US market. The company is known for its user-friendly app, real-time spending notifications, and innovative financial management tools, positioning itself as a challenger bank in the European fintech landscape.

Monzo has established a significant presence in Spain, with a growing team of engineers, risk managers, and product specialists based in cities like Madrid and Barcelona. The company's culture emphasizes transparency, customer focus, and a collaborative engineering environment, making it an attractive destination for international professionals. With a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, Monzo offers relocation support and a dynamic work environment for those looking to contribute to a leading digital bank in Europe.

Industry
Fintech
Founded
2015
Employees
1,000–5,000
Headquarters
London, UK
In Spain
Madrid, Barcelona
Website
monzo.com

Good to know if you are moving

  • Monzo offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between office and remote work.
  • The company provides visa sponsorship for international hires, facilitating relocation to Spain.
  • Monzo's engineering culture emphasizes modern practices like microservices and continuous delivery.
  • Employees enjoy a competitive benefits package, including health insurance and stock options.
  • The Spain office is part of Monzo's EU expansion strategy, offering growth opportunities in a new market.

In their own words

About the company & team

We're looking for a Senior Product Data Scientist excited to help build the bank of the future. You'll have the opportunity to super charge our user engagement and help us to build a bank that customers truly love.

At Monzo, we're building a bank that is fair, transparent and a delight to use. We're growing extremely fast and have over 15 million customers in the UK. We've built a product that people love and more than 80% of our growth comes from word of mouth and referrals.

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data scientists the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

How we hire

We are excited to be expanding and are hiring for multiple roles across our Data Science teams! Whether your interests lie in Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Fincrime, Wealth, or Core, we are looking for talented individuals with a versatile skill set to contribute across our squads. While we allocate teams after the interview process, we aim to match your skills and aspirations with the most suitable role. Throughout the process, you will meet team members from across our Data Science collectives, who will guide you through the opportunities available. Join us and be part of shaping our future!

Additional information

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You canblog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

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