Staff Software Engineer – Team Lead

🕒 October 28, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Starling Bank

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Banking • Fintech • Finance

Starling Bank is a UK-based digital bank providing a range of personal and business banking services. It offers current accounts, savings accounts, euro accounts, and teen-oriented banking. Starling Bank is known for its emphasis on mobile banking, featuring tools for budgeting, bill management, international money transfers, and overdraft facilities. The bank also provides business accounts tailored for sole traders and larger enterprises with multi-currency options. Award-winning security features and 24/7 customer service further define its banking services. As a fully regulated bank, Starling prioritizes sustainable banking and innovation in financial services.

📋 Description

• Coach, mentor, and grow a high-performing team, ensuring their well-being as they work on high-impact solutions that bring value to Engine and our customers. • Have the opportunity to lead multiple complex projects from inception through to run • Get hands-on when needed, using your strong system design skills to help the team make smart architectural decisions and unblock complex challenges. • Take ownership of technical challenges critical to the success of the business • Identify where existing tooling, applications, or processes can be enhanced and deliver innovative change • Collaborate with clients, solution architects, product owners, and other engineers to help meet the client goals • Obtain a wide and varied understanding of how banks operate around the world • Shape the future capabilities of Engine, including our approach, tooling, automation and architecture. • Lead by example in your contributions to the codebase, setting a high bar for others to aim for • Champion a healthy engineering culture built on continuous improvement, technical excellence, and a focus on the customer.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams. • Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment • Be a highly proficient developer, maintaining a high standard for technical and coding excellence in the collective, through your own work • Good understanding of DevOps practices • Delivering complex outcomes across multiple domains and teams • Working cross-functionally with technologists from other specialties, and non-technical stakeholders across the business • Coaching and mentoring members of a team to upskill and develop them in their career • Leading the technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion

🏖️ Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton • Generous family-friendly policies • Incentives refer a friend scheme • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing