Senior iOS Engineer

Starling Bank; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital bank in Manchester is seeking engineers passionate about producing reliable mobile applications. Applicants should have a strong focus on developing secure, user-friendly code within a collaborative and innovative environment. You will work on feature-rich products using UIKit and may also explore reactive programming with RxSwift. The role offers flexibility with a hybrid work model and a rich package of employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Extra day off for birthday

Paid volunteering time

Enhanced pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Generous family-friendly policies

Employee discounts through Perkbox

Qualifications

• Proven ability to prioritize security in development.
• Experience in building and releasing features in a digital environment.
• Strong understanding of user experience and design.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust, well-tested code for mobile applications.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance development processes.
• Take ownership of your work and deliver the best possible results for customers.

Skills

Understanding of security

Clean and maintainable code

Focus on Accessibility

Experience with RxSwift

Familiarity with UIKit

Job description

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. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.

Our Engineering Environment

Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

Requirements

As a fully digital bank, we are looking for engineers that are able to understand and prioritise security when implementing new features, fixing bugs or making technical improvements, across all the layers. Our team is designing, building and releasing new screens every day, for this reason we are interested in people with a particular focus on Accessibility along with writing clean and maintainable code.

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 the code, shipping and maintaining it, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers.

iOS engineering

We also built in-house tools and frameworks as developer productivity and automation is paramount to us.

• Want to work on a feature rich mobile app with millions of customers;
• Can produce robust, well tested code that will give our customers the reliability that they need;
• Care about the product, the user experience and the design;
• Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software;
• Our application is built with UIKit, knowing its concepts and components is a must.
• We use RxSwift in our project, experience with reactive programming will be a plus but is not required.

Interview process

• First interview : ~45 minutes
• Take home technical test (no time limit)
• Technical face to face : hours
• Final Interview : ~45 minutes

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose 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 Us

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.

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