Senior UI Engineer, Starling
1 day a week in office
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
Job no longer available
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1 day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To solve our customer's problems - and build the best bank in the world.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who’s excited to get stuck into varying parts of a large application, improving anything that takes their eye
- Experience in a Front-End Engineering role previously, ideally 5+ years
- Experience contributing to shared component libraries/design systems/etc
- Good knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Design experience would be ideal, but is not required
- We make pretty wide use of React, Sass and TypeScript, so those would be a bonus, too (but we’re more than happy to help transfer any transferable skills)
- Comfort with owning and driving projects from ideas to the real world
What the job involves
- At Starling, we’ve built the admin interface for the bank entirely in-house: hundreds of screens catering to every team across the company
- As we grow, both in terms of operational staff using the app, and developers contributing to it, we want to ensure that the tools people use to build new views still support the wildly varying requirements in the best way possible
- From tweaking individual tokens to laying out larger templates for more complex views, there’s a lot of opportunity to shape how the codebase grows
- You’ll work with a supportive team, but will also have the freedom to really drive projects yourself
- Our front-end applications are built in-house with JavaScript/TypeScript, React and more. We’re currently looking for people interested in working on the admin application used by all of Operations to run the bank
- Helping to manage the in-house component library used in the web app we use to run the bank
- Caring about everything from how the UI looks, to how to design the interfaces of the components in the code, ensuring everyone is gently funnelled towards creating the best possible screens
- Taking part in maintenance of shared code across the repo (and other web projects here, too)
- Supporting other developers contributing to the project
Application 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:
- Initial phone call - ~45 minutes
- Take home technical test (no time limit)
- Technical interview - ~1.5 hours
- Final Interview - ~45 minutes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Starling started life focused on consumer banking, it has since found most of its success by competing in the business banking space. Its caught up with Tide and beaten the likes of Monzo and Revolut to a more complete offering for businesses.
This progress resulted in the company receiving a £100M grant in April 2019 from a body created to boost competition in SME banking, which it has used to accelerate building a full suite of digital banking products: intelligent forecasting tools, and digitally-enabled relationship management functions, as well as lending products. Since then, it has gone on to raise significant rounds of funding with leading investors such as Goldman Sachs.
As well as continuing to expand in the UK, its expanding in Europe. And its imminently launching an international bank in Dublin, which has allowed it to offer its current account across the European Union post-Brexit
Banking for small businesses has historically been ignored, even though the experience is poor. Starling is in tune with knowing what its customers want, and continues to build out its range of third-party products within its banking app thanks to support from its open API. Having achieved profitability, it currently has 26 integrations, including Xero, but that figure continues to grow.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Apr 2022
$172.3m
LATE VC
Jun 2021
$46.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Time off: 25 days holiday, plus your birthday as an extra freebie. You can also opt out of bank holidays and take them when works for you!
- Health insurance: Private health insurance with Vitality Health, one of the UK's leading private medical insurers
- Pension scheme
- Paid volunteering leave: We encourage all our employees to give back. You can take up to 16 hours paid leave a year, specifically to help causes meaningful to you
- Gym & cycle to work schemes: We offer discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes through salary sacrifice
- Perkbox: For a wide range of retail, entertainment and leisure discounts (as well as cash back) at a huge variety of businesses
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Anne Boden
(Founder)Held senior roles in finance over a 30 year career, including COO for AIB and Head of EMEA for RBS. Was CEO of the company for 9.5 years.
Raman Bhatia
(Group CEO)Previously CEO of OVO, Board Member at Bud, Head of Digital Bank (UK) at HSBC and VP at HouseTrip, among other roles.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Starling
Manuela Torrijos-Simon (Group Financial Controller)
- In the spirit of Aiming for Greatness and Doing the Right Thing, we want to be the bank with the best approach to Diversity and Inclusion
- The Always Open Forum at Starling empowers employees to come together and own their areas of interest, supporting their agenda both internally and externally
- The forum creates a safe space for conversations about all Diversity and Inclusion topics, with the spotlight currently on 3 focus areas; Race and Ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and Mental Health.
- We’re about to launch a new group to support Disability, and all of these teams help bring Starlings together to improve our workplace
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