Software Engineer, Starling Bank

Java, DBA Team

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
London

1-5 days a week in office

Starling Bank

Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts

Open for applications

Starling Bank

Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeLendingCredit cardsFinancial Services

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
London

1-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeLendingCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

Anne Boden founded Starling with a clear goal: to build a bank that would help you manage your money, all from one app. Their vision is to give everyone clarity and control over their money so they have the opportunity to enjoy a healthy financial life.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience of software development. Preferably Java
  • Experience of using infrastructure as code. Preferably Terraform
  • Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
  • Understanding of Postgres from an administrative and developer perspective
  • Self-motivated person able to drive change, take initiative and own their work
  • Strong ability to solve complex technical problems
  • Ability to communicate at all levels of the business to understand the users needs

Desirable

  • Knowledge of docker, or Kubernetes
  • Used to working at a senior level able to communicate effectively to achieve their goals

What the job involves

  • Working within our engineering team, you will be responsible for the application and infrastructure used to support our PostgreSQL databases. This will include:
  • Working within the DBA team to build out our Database Manager application used to manage and monitor our databases
  • Actively deliver on knowledge sharing across the team on Java
  • Working with our teams to understand their database needs and make adjustments from an application and infrastructure standpoint
  • Monitoring and optimising the performance of databases
  • Query analysis to understand how our databases are being used
  • Allocating for systems requirements and planning future needs
  • Working within the team to understand how to manage and maintain Postgres database infrastructure

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:
  • First Interview - 30 minutes
  • Technical Interview - 90 minutes
  • Final Interview - 45 minutes

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Starling started life focused on consumer banking, they have since found most of their success by competing in the business banking space. They’ve caught up with Tide and beaten the likes of Monzo and Revolut to a more complete offering for businesses.

This progress resulted in them receiving a £100m grant in April 2019 from a body created to boost competition in SME banking, which they're using to accelerate building a full suite of digital banking products: intelligent forecasting tools, and digitally-enabled relationship management functions as well as lending products.

As well as continuing to expand in the UK, they’re expanding in Europe. They’re imminently launching an international bank in Dublin, which will allow Starling to offer its current account across the European Union after Brexit.

Banking for small businesses has historically been ignored even though the experience is poor. Starling is in tune with knowing what their customers want, and they continue to build out their range of third-party products within its banking app thanks to support from its open API. They currently have 11 integrations, including Xero, but that figure continues to grow.

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Insights

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

43% female employees

40% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)

Apr 2022

$168.5m

LATE VC

Jun 2021

$45.2m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company 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
  • 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
  • Incentives refer a friend scheme

Company values

  • Do the right thing
  • Listen
  • Aim for greatness
  • Own it
  • Keep it simple

Company HQ

Spitalfields, London, UK

Leadership

Anne Boden

(Founder)

Held senior roles in finance over a 30 year career, including COO for AIB and Head of EMEA for RBS.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Starling Bank

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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