Staff Backend Engineer, Banking Platform

Starling; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension scheme

Cycle to Work

Life insurance

Volunteer time

Perkbox membership

Job summary

Engine by Starling is hiring Staff Engineers to lead and shape the Engine Platform, building features for banks worldwide. You will work on a distributed, cloud-native backend, mentor teams, and own key technical initiatives across multiple markets.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and collaboration with product owners and architects to deliver robust, scalable banking solutions. Hybrid working and significant learning opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment.
• Maintain a high standard for technical and coding excellence.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices.
• Lead technical delivery on large-scale projects across domains.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our backend platform and internal tooling.
• Build new features and products from scratch in a scalable way.
• Share knowledge and mentor teammates across teams.
• Own projects and drive them in small, cross-bank teams.
• Aim for greatness and stay curious while solving problems.
• Help scale the team and organisation as we grow our banking platform.

Skills

Java

DevOps

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tech leadership

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

TeamCity

Terraform

Grafana

Job description

Engine by Starling is hiring Staff Engineers to lead and shape the Engine Platform, building features for banks worldwide. You will work on a distributed, cloud-native backend, mentor teams, and own key technical initiatives across multiple markets.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and collaboration with product owners and architects to deliver robust, scalable banking solutions. Hybrid working and significant learning opportunities are offered.