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About the Role

Starling is the UK's leading digital bank, aiming to revolutionize banking through fast technology, fair service, and honest values. Our technologists are central to our mission, working in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and building disruptive technology at the forefront of fintech. We foster an open culture with a flat structure, empowering individuals to make decisions and collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

Modernize and scale the RDS fleet, ensuring reliability and using Terraform for automation.
Evolve observability and monitoring for the global database fleet using Java-based pipelines and metrics platforms.
Fortify business continuity by designing and implementing BCP and Disaster Recovery strategies with Java-based automation.
Architect cross-cloud portability using CNPG and cloud-native patterns.
Build Java-driven applications to orchestrate database monitoring, automated failover, and replication.

Requirements

Hands-on experience working with Postgres databases, including query execution, indexing, locking, and performance tuning.
Belief that infrastructure and database orchestration should be driven programmatically via Terraform and custom Java automation.
Excitement for multi-tenant and multi-region data platforms, ensuring data integrity, clean relational modeling, and mobility.
Focus on building deep observability and automated security guardrails directly into Java services.

Skills

Terraform
Java
Prometheus
Grafana
Dash0
Sentry
Humio
CNPG (CloudNativePG)
PostgreSQL
Relational Modeling

Location

London
Southampton
Cardiff
Manchester

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Onsite (minimum 1 day per week)

Experience Level

All levels

Benefits

25 days holiday plus public holidays
Extra day's holiday for birthday
Option 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 salary
Group income protection
Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth (including mental health support and cancer care)
Partner benefits with discounts
Generous family-friendly policies
Perkbox membership (retail discounts, wellness platform)
Cycle to Work scheme
Gym partnerships
Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About the Company

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking with fast technology, fair service, and honest values.
We are 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, 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 Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, 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 Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
Our Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime and Data & ML Engineering.
Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and more importantly our customers.
We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team.
We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling.
People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team.
Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Equal Opportunity

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace.
Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.