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About the Role

Starling is seeking motivated engineers with around 3-4 years of Java experience to join their Finance Engineering team. This role involves writing and supporting key financial systems, including the bank's ledgers and their integrations. Engineers will contribute to building, designing, and problem-solving within a fast-paced, innovative environment focused on transforming banking.

Responsibilities

Writing and supporting key financial systems such as the bank’s ledgers and the systems that integrate with them.
Engaging in the project lifecycle with internal stakeholders.
Designing systems to solve problems.
Contributing to building, designing, and discovering new solutions.
Sharing knowledge with colleagues.
Ensuring processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for customers.

Requirements

Around 3-4 years of Java experience.
Good attention to detail.
Ability to write clear, concise, and maintainable code.
Good understanding of the lifecycle of a project.
Ability to engage in the project process with internal stakeholders.
Experience in designing systems to solve problems.
Motivated to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems.

Skills

Java
TypeScript
Postgres
AWS
GCP
Distributed service-based architecture
Kubernetes (EKS)
TeamCity
Terraform
Grafana

Location

London
Southampton
Cardiff
Manchester

Work Type

Hybrid Working

Experience Level

3-4 years of Java experience

Benefits

25 days holiday
Additional day’s holiday for your 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 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
Perkbox membership (retail discounts, wellness platform, weekly free and boosted perks)
Cycle to Work initiative
Salary Sacrificed 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.
We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.
We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company.
We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone.
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.
Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
Our Engineering Environment: Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be.
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.
The Finance Engineering team sits at the core of the bank, and is responsible for the correct accounting of every transaction that passes through the bank's systems.
Our team focuses on correctness and accuracy of transactions, on recording the underlying story of money as it moves, and on supporting and automating the complex financial processes that take place behind the scenes.
We work directly with the treasurers and accountants that allow the bank to thrive, and with every project and system within the bank that has financial impact.
This is a unique opportunity to work with some of Starling's mission-critical services and products.
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 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 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.
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