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About the Role

Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, providing technology to leading banks worldwide to build rapid growth businesses. We are an engineering-led company seeking individuals excited by the potential of our technology to transform banking globally.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple complex projects from inception through to run.
Take ownership of technical challenges critical to business success.
Identify opportunities to enhance existing tooling, applications, or processes.
Collaborate with clients, solution architects, product owners, and engineers to meet client goals.
Shape the future capabilities of Engine, including approach, tooling, automation, and architecture.
Lead by example in codebase contributions, setting a high standard.
Contribute to the award-winning platform and internal tooling.
Build new features and products from scratch in a configurable way.
Share knowledge with colleagues, contributing to a learning culture.
Own projects, working in small teams across the bank to collaboratively deliver.
Aim for greatness, staying curious and inquisitive.
Be part of a scaling team and organization.

Requirements

Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment.
Be a highly proficient developer, maintaining a high standard for technical and coding excellence.
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.
Coaching and mentoring members of a team to upskill and develop them.
Leading the technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion.
We care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
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.

Skills

Java
AWS
GCP
Microservice based architecture
Kubernetes (EKS)
TeamCity
Terraform
Grafana

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid Working

Experience Level

All levels
Staff Engineer

Benefits

33 days holiday (including public holidays)
An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
Annual leave is increased with length of service
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
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

About the Company

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, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Starling 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.
As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients.
We are looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world.
Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
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.
We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they can make to banking around the world.
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 Engine, to continue changing banking for good.
We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
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.
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

Engine by 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 Engine by 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.