Staff Backend Engineer — Scale Banking Platform

Starling; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Birthday holiday

Pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Engine by Starling is looking for Backend Software Engineers to join the Engine Platform and build features for banks worldwide. Staff level engineers will lead complex projects, mentor teams, and own technical challenges across multiple domains, shaping Engine's future with automation, tooling and scalable architecture.

You will work in a hybrid model from our offices, contributing to a high-performance engineering culture and delivering value to clients globally.

Qualifications

• Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment.
• High standard of technical and coding excellence in your own work.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices.
• Delivering complex outcomes across multiple domains and teams.
• Coaching and mentoring team members to upskill.
• Leading technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion.

Responsibilities

• Have the opportunity to lead multiple complex projects from inception through to run.
• Be a Technical Leader, whether that be with a team to manage or without.
• Take ownership of technical challenges critical to the success of the business.
• Identify where existing tooling, applications, or processes can be enhanced and deliver innovative change.
• Collaborate with clients, solution architects, product owners, and other engineers to help meet the client goals.
• Obtain a wide and varied understanding of how banks operate around the world.
• Shape the future capabilities of Engine, including our approach, tooling, automation and architecture.
• Lead by example in your contributions to the codebase, setting a high bar for others to aim for.
• Contribute to our award winning platform and internal tooling.
• Build new features and products from scratch in a configurable way.
• Share your knowledge with those around you, contributing to our learning culture.
• Own your projects, working in small teams across the bank to collaboratively deliver.
• Aim for greatness in everything you do, staying curious and inquisitive.
• Be part of a scaling team and organisation as we change banking for good.

Skills

Java

DevOps practices

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

TeamCity

Terraform

Grafana

Job description

Engine by Starling is looking for Backend Software Engineers to join the Engine Platform and build features for banks worldwide. Staff level engineers will lead complex projects, mentor teams, and own technical challenges across multiple domains, shaping Engine's future with automation, tooling and scalable architecture.

You will work in a hybrid model from our offices, contributing to a high-performance engineering culture and delivering value to clients globally.