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Software Engineer - Java

Starling Bank Limited

Manchester

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

Join a pioneering digital bank that is reshaping the financial landscape! This innovative firm is seeking passionate engineers who thrive in a collaborative environment. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, including Java and cloud services, to build tools and features that enhance customer experiences. With a culture that values ownership and creativity, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of banking. Enjoy a hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance, alongside generous benefits that support your well-being and career growth. If you're ready to take your career to new heights, this is the place for you!

Benefits

25 days holiday
Extra day off for your birthday
Annual leave increases with service
16 hours paid volunteering time
Company enhanced pension scheme
Life insurance at 4x salary
Private Medical Insurance
Generous family-friendly policies
Perkbox membership
Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

  • Experience in Java and cloud-native technologies like AWS and GCP.
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain new features in a fast-paced environment.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and improve banking services.

Skills

Java
AWS
GCP
Microservices
Kubernetes
Terraform
Grafana
CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

TeamCity

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. 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 Engineering Environment

Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. We are looking for engineers 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.

The main part of our Tech Stack is listed below, we don't ask that you have experience in all of this, but if you do, that's great!

  • Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase
  • AWS & GCP - we're cloud-native
  • Microservice based architecture
  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • TeamCity for CI / CD (lots of teams are releasing code 15-20 times per day!)
  • Terraform and Grafana

Our 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 following:

  • Initial phone call - ~45 minutes
  • Take home technical test to be discussed in the technical interview - ~3 hours
  • Technical interview - ~1.5 hours
  • Final Interview (normally done on the same day as the face to face) - ~40 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
  • 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

Starling Bank 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 Bank 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.

By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes.

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