Starling Bank
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.
Staff Software Engineer
🕒 June 18, 2025
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Starling Bank
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
• At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. • Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. • Starling Bank has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. • Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! • The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. • We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. • We’re looking for Backend Software Engineers to work on the Engine Platform and make our existing features work for banks all over the world as well as building new features from scratch that Starling hasn’t released in the UK market. • Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be.
🎯 Requirements
• We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. We are very open about how we deliver software. For the most part we code in Java, but you need not be an expert when you join us! We believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we’d love to hear from you. • We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis. • As a Staff Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: • 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
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