Machine Learning Engineer London, UK · Entry, Junior, Mid

Advai Limited

Greater London

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Extra holiday for birthdays

Paid volunteering time

Company-enhanced pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Family-friendly policies

Social groups run by employees

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work initiative

Electric Vehicle leasing

Job summary

A leading digital bank in the UK is seeking a Full Stack Engineer who is comfortable with both front-end and back-end development. You will work on building the tooling necessary for our engineers, as well as writing and debugging code primarily in Java and React. The hybrid work model allows flexibility, supporting up to two remote days a week. The ideal candidate will have strong coding principles and a passion for delivering innovative solutions to enhance our customers' banking experience.

Qualifications

Experience with full stack development, both front-end and back-end.
Ability to debug Java applications and database interactions.
Familiarity with automated testing and continuous deployment.

Responsibilities

Work on tooling used by engineers.
Deliver software with a small, empowered team.
Engage in agile decision making.

Skills

Design REST APIs

Code backend services in Java

Develop modern front ends using React

Support code in the cloud, ideally on AWS

Believe in clean coding practices

Take ownership of features

Tools

Terraform

Java

React

Job description

Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)

Company: Starling Bank

Location: London, UK (Hybrid – up to 2 remote days per week)

Employment Type: Permanent

Base Salary: £70K – £110K

Role Overview

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.

Our Data Environment

Our data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powering our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what your primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

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.

Requirements

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.

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable polishing their javascript front end as they are debugging the innards of their java applications database interactions, or standing up infrastructure with terraform. We are looking for people who can:

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

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