Full Stack Developer London, UK · Junior, Mid, Senior

Advai Limited

Greater London

On-site

GBP 45,000 - 65,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Extra holiday for birthday

Paid volunteering time

Flexible hours

Private Medical Insurance

Access to retail discounts

Cycle to Work initiative

Job summary

A leading digital bank is seeking a talented data professional to join their dynamic team in Greater London. The role requires expertise in designing REST APIs, coding in Java, and developing modern front ends using React. This position offers a hybrid working model and numerous benefits including 33 days holiday, medical insurance, and flexible working hours. The bank values innovation and collaboration to transform banking for good.

Qualifications

Experience in designing REST APIs and coding backend services, ideally with Java.
Proficient in developing modern front ends using React and Redux.
Ability to deploy and support code in cloud environments, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

Join a team of talented data professionals to tackle diverse problems.
Take ownership of features from initial concept to deployment.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to impact banking positively.

Skills

Design REST APIs

Backend development with Java

Frontend development with React

Cloud support on AWS

Clean coding practices

Job description

About Starling Bank

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.

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.

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. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Role Overview

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.

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.

Requirements

Design REST apis.
Code backend services, ideally using Java, or another other server side compiled language.
Develop modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
Get their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS.
Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
Like to take ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
Think (like us) 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. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
Generous family‑friendly policies
Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
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

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. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: