Data Engineer, Starling
Data Infrastructure
1-5 days a week in office
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
Posted today
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
1001+ employees
Posted today
1-5 days 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
- 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
- Good knowledge of programming languages such as Python or Java
- Solid understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes (Operators, Helm, etc)
- Proficiency with either AWS or GCP
- Experience with Terraform to define and manage cloud infrastructure through code
- Good practical experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- 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
Desirable
- Experience in SQL-based transformation workflows, particularly using DBT in BigQuery
- Familiarity with streaming data ingestion technologies (Kafka, Debezium)
- Exposure to Data management and Linux administration
What the job involves
- Building out cloud-native Warehouse and Machine Learning platforms
- Improve existing and implement new tooling in and between AWS and GCP
Application process
- 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:
- Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
- Stage 2 - Take-home challenge
- Stage 3 - 60 mins technical interview with two team members
- Stage 4 - 45 min final with two data executives
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 Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Apr 2022
$172.5m
LATE VC
Jun 2021
$46.3m
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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