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About the Role

Starling is seeking motivated engineers with at least 3-4 years of Java experience to join the Getting Paid & Open Banking team. This role involves developing and maintaining capabilities for businesses to collect payments and integrate with third-party providers. The ideal candidate will have excellent attention to detail, write clear and maintainable code, and understand robust, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain innovative capabilities that empower businesses to collect payments seamlessly.
Integrate accounts with third-party providers.
Deliver tailored solutions that enable small to medium sized businesses to get paid, including features like Invoicing, Tap to Pay, and Settle Up for Business.
Maintain the Open Banking API, proprietary PSD2 public API, the Starling Marketplace, and the peer-to-peer ecosystem underpinning Confirmation of Payee.
Explore innovative ways to enhance the core banking product, such as Easy Account Top Up.
Engage in both technical and product engineering.
Collaborate closely with external third-party partners.

Requirements

At least 3-4 years of Java experience.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to write clear, concise, and maintainable code.
Strong understanding of delivering robust, scalable systems.
Proven track record of engineering excellence.
Experience with AWS and Postgres is highly desirable.
Ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges.
Can work across teams.

Skills

Java
AWS
GCP
Distributed service-based architecture
Kubernetes (EKS)
TeamCity for CI/CD
Terraform
Grafana
Clean coding
Simple solutions
Automated testing
Continuous deployment

Location

London
Southampton
Cardiff
Manchester

Work Type

Hybrid Working

Experience Level

3-4 years of Java experience

Benefits

25 days holiday
Public holiday allowance
An extra 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 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

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: 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.
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.
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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