Head of Mobile Engineering

Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling 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. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business.

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and take full ownership of everything around you: from building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and ensuring all processes are efficient and productive.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.

Requirements

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. We are looking for people who are truly full stack and are comfortable with:

• Designing REST APIs.
• Coding backend services, ideally using Java or another server-side compiled language.
• Developing modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
• Getting their code into the cloud and supporting it there, ideally on AWS.
• Believing in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
• Taking ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
• Thinking that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.

Company Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays)
• An extra day's holiday for your birthday
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships, and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

Interview Process

Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious.

• Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
• Stage 2 - Take home challenge
• Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members
• Stage 4 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team

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