Staff Software Engineer, Engine by Starling
Engine by Starling
1-5 days a week in office
Digital banking platform
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Digital banking platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
1-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To radically reshape banking in markets around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment
- Be a highly proficient developer, maintaining a high standard for technical and coding excellence in the collective, through your own work
- Good understanding of DevOps practices
- Delivering complex outcomes across multiple domains and teams
- Working cross-functionally with technologists from other specialties, and non-technical stakeholders across the business
- Coaching and mentoring members of a team to upskill and develop them in their career
- Leading the technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion
- Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase
- AWS & GCP - we're cloud-native
- Microservice based architecture
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- The main part of our Backend Tech Stack is listed below, we don't ask that you have experience in all of this, but if you do, that's great!
- TeamCity for CI / CD (with multiple production releases per day)
- Terraform and Grafana
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Application process
- Initial interview with an Engineer - ~45 minutes
- Take home technical test to be discussed in the next interview
- Technical interview with some Engineers - ~1.5 hours
- Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO ~45 minutes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Engine by Starling emerges as a solution to the age-old challenge plaguing traditional banking systems: outdated infrastructure. The banking landscape is littered with legacy systems, hindering innovation, agility, and customer-centricity. Engine steps in to disrupt this by offering a cloud-native banking platform.
Firstly, it provides a suite of technology that forms the backbone of digital banking, enabling clients to pick solutions tailored to their needs. Secondly, Engine adopts a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, diverging from conventional banking strategies. This move democratises access to cutting-edge banking technology, cutting through geographical barriers and fostering global financial inclusivity.
Engine's trajectory is poised for expansion and dominance in the financial technology arena, with the CEO claiming it can be bigger than Starling. As it continues to catalyse digital transformation across traditional banking institutions, Engine is set to become a pivotal player in the industry.
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Company benefits
- 33 holiday days: Including public holidays which you can take when works for you
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner Benefits include discount with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peleton
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- 4x life insurance: Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Perkbox membership, giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
Company values
- Listen: We listen to each other and our clients – because everyone has something different to teach us, and diversity of thought makes our work better.
- Aim for greatness: In everything we do, we strive to deliver the best possible outcome. If something’s worth making, it’s worth making it great
- Own it: Smart people thrive when they’re given freedom. Our people like to get their hands dirty, figure things out and take ownership
- Keep it simple: There’s beauty (and speed) in simplicity. From the way we speak to the tech we build, we want to be simple and clear in everything we do
- Do the right thing: Ethics aren’t an afterthought – they’re our driving force. Doing what’s best for our communities and the planet is central to our mission
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Sam Everington
(CEO)Has worked at Starling Bank for the past 7 years in various roles before becoming the CEO of Engine by Starling in 2022. Previously a Senior Consultant/Manager & Technical Architect at Alfa.
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