Lead the development of advanced ML models to enhance customer search experiences at Monzo.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
You'll leverage your deep expertise to develop and deploy advanced ML models to our more than 15 million customers.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Lead Machine Learning Scientist at Monzo, the individual will focus on developing and deploying advanced machine learning models that enhance customer interactions with financial products. Key skills include proficiency in Python, experience with scikit-learn, and a strong understanding of SQL, with a willingness to learn Go. This position is ideal for someone with a proven track record in machine learning within a fast-paced tech environment, who is driven by impact and eager to contribute to a customer-centric financial platform.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 9, 2026. Last confirmed on Monzo's careers page October 28, 2026.
- Starts above 19% of 63 comparable lead ai/ml roles we track (median $200,000 across 36 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search role remote?
- It's hybrid — Monzo expects some on-site time in Cardiff, London or Remote (UK).
- What's the salary range?
- Monzo lists £115,000–£150,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search role.
- Where is the role based?
- Monzo is hiring for this position in Cardiff, London or Remote (UK).
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Python, SQL, scikit-learn.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Monzo targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search role at Monzo.
From the original posting
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
📍London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰 £115,000 - £150,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits ✨
About our Machine Learning Search Team
We are currently embarking on one of our two top strategic priorities to make Money work for Everyone: building the Monzo Co-pilot. We are becoming an intelligent, proactive ally that handles the complexity of users financial life. We aren't just selling financial products; we are building a truly smart agent that understands users, anticipates their needs, and helps people reach their financial goals.
Our ML Search team brings together Backend, Product, Machine Learning Scientists and Data Scientists. As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist, you’ll build and ship models that help customers search for and find answers about their financial lives. You'll make it effortless for them to find the right products at the exact moment they need them.
Whether it’s surfacing the right savings product at the perfect moment, helping customers manage their spending, or simplifying financial planning, our work makes banking smarter, more intuitive, and truly customer-first.
What you’ll be working on:
You should apply if:
What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!
- You have a multiple year track record of excellence leading the development and deployment of advanced Machine Learning models to tackle real business problems preferably in a fast moving tech company
- You have experience developing and shipping state of the art ML models to production and delivering business impact
- You're impact driven and excited to own the end to end journey that starts with a business problem and ends with your solution having a measurable impact in production
- You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
- You speak Python fluently and have extensive, hands-on experience with
scikit-learn. You are comfortable using SQL, and keen to learn Go lang which is used in many of our backend microservices - You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and stakeholders resolve that ambiguity
- You want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You're excited about fast-moving developments in Machine Learning and can communicate those ideas to colleagues who are not familiar with the domain
- You’re adaptable, curious and enjoy learning new technologies and ideas
Nice to haves:
- Experience working on personalisation, ranking & recommendation problems for consumer applications
- Commercial experience writing critical production code and working with microservices
The interview process:
Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!
30 minute recruiter call
45 minute call with hiring manager
Full Loop: ML Modelling Interview, Product & ML interview, Behavioural Interview, Leadership interview
Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.
What’s in it for you:
✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK
✅ We can sponsor visas
📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
⏰ 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 £1,000 a year for training courses and conferences
➕And much more, see our full list of benefits here
If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance
#LI-REMOTE #LI-SR1
Equal opportunities for everyone
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