Starling Bank
Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)
London, UK FinTech · Banking · Finance A better bank for everyone Active over 6 months ago Responds to 0% of requests Responds in 1h 55m Requests 7 pending
Base salary: £70K - £110K Employment type: Permanent Remote working: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days p/w) Visa sponsorship: Not available
Skills & Experience
Job roles: Full Stack Experience level: Mid, Senior Core skills considered: Java, React, Redux, AWS, JavaScript
Job Description
Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
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. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.
Our Data Environment
Our Data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powers our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech .
We are looking for talented data professionals 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.
Requirements
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.
- Design REST apis.
- Code backend services, ideally using Java, or another other server side compiled language.
- Develop modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
- Get their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS.
- Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
- Like to take ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
- Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.
Company Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- 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
- Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
- 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
Interview Process
- Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
- Stage 2 - Take home challenge
- Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members
- Stage 3 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team
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