Technology Platform Engineer

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features and efficient back-office processes that have helped achieve Starling's success.

As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering-led company and we’re looking for people who are excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - 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.

About Engineering at Engine by Starling

The Cross Cutting Engineering team at Engine is the backbone of our innovation. We're dedicated to building and maintaining the reliable, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure and tooling that powers our entire software delivery pipeline – from the first line of code to seamless production deployment and ongoing operations. We own the lifecycle of our features, tackling complex challenges with a first-principles approach and fostering a multi-disciplinary environment where you're encouraged to explore and contribute across the platform.

As a Platform Engineer at Engine, you'll be at the forefront of building and scaling our cutting-edge cloud-native banking platform across multiple global cloud providers and regions. We're looking for engineers with a strong SRE mindset, who embrace ownership of the entire software delivery pipeline, and are passionate about building internal tooling that empowers our technology teams to operate their applications flawlessly in production. If you're excited by the challenges of building and operating a global, cloud-native platform, we encourage you to apply.

Building and Scaling Cloud Infrastructure:

• Design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure across multiple providers (including but not limited to GCP) and regions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

Building on Google Cloud:

• Contribute to the build-out and optimisation of our core "Engine" on Google Cloud Platform using Java and Kubernetes.

Enhancing Developer Experience:

• Develop and maintain internal tooling using Java and Golang to improve developer experience and on-call efficiency.

Driving Efficiency:

• Optimise the performance and reliability of our cloud environment with a strong focus on cost-effectiveness.

Embracing Automation:

• Identify and implement automation opportunities to minimise manual processes across the platform lifecycle.

Security Practices:

• Implement and maintain robust security practices to protect our platform and customer data.

Championing Best Practices:

• Stay abreast of new technologies and industry changes, particularly in SRE practices and deployment automation, and share your knowledge with the team.

The option to join our on-call rota (not mandatory!) For this role, we are looking for some specific additional skills - if you prefer Java only roles be sure to check out our other Software Engineer roles.

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Java (if you have experience with only one of these that's fine, we'll expect you to pick up the other whilst you're here!).
• Deep understanding of SRE principles and practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning.
• A strong focus on automation and a passion for eliminating manual tasks.
• Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with other cloud providers, particularly AWS.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience with database technologies, particularly Postgres.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring systems, and a solid understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.

In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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
• Incentives refer a friend scheme
• 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

While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.