Senior Software Engineer - Java - London

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

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. Our Engineering Environment at Starling is designed for engineers 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. Ideally, you have at least 5-6 years of experience as a professional software engineer. We are very open about how we deliver software. For the most part, we code in Java and we believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.

If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we’d love to hear from you. 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!

1. Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase
2. AWS & GCP - we’re cloud-based
3. Microservice based architecture
4. Kubernetes (EKS)
5. TeamCity for CI / CD (lots of teams are releasing code 15-20 times per day!)
6. 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 below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

1. Initial interview with an Engineer - ~45 minutes
2. Take home technical test to be discussed in the next interview
3. Technical interview - ~1.5 hours
4. Final Interview - ~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

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. Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster inclusivity in the workplace.

Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.