Staff Software Engineer - Engine by Starling

The Engine; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Engine by Starling is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and shape critical backend initiatives for banking partners worldwide. You will drive complex projects end-to-end, mentor engineers, and own technical challenges that impact the business.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture decisions in a hybrid work setting. You will collaborate with clients, architects and product owners to deliver scalable, secure and reliable features, while expanding our platform and tooling for

Qualifications

• Senior/Staff level software engineer with strong leadership and technical capabilities.
• Experience delivering complex backend systems in a banking or fintech context.
• Ability to collaborate with clients, architects and product owners.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex projects from inception through to run.
• Be a Technical Leader, with or without a team.
• Take ownership of technical challenges critical to the business.
• Identify where tooling, apps, or processes can be enhanced and deliver changes.
• Collaborate with clients, solution architects, product owners, and other engineers to meet client goals.
• Understand how banks operate globally to shape Engine's capabilities.

Job description

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we're looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine's technology to transform banking in different markets around the world. Our purpose is underpinned by five 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 Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - https://www.enginebystarling.com/ We're looking for Backend Software Engineers to work on the Engine Platform and make our existing features work for banks all over the world as well as building new features from scratch that Starling hasn't released in the UK market. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in some case studies, below, and our work with Women In Tech.

• Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
• Running a Backend Team
• Check out our shiny new Engineering careers page

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 can make to banking around the world. 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 Engine, to continue changing banking for good.

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• 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

As an Engineer you will:

• 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