London Backend Java Engineer

Starling Bank Limited • TRAFFIC • Hampshire, Southampton, United Kingdom • 21h ago

Overview

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We built a new kind of bank because technology has the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a transformative way. We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the heart of Starling and enjoy a fast-paced environment focused on building, innovating and disruptive technology. We operate a flat structure that empowers you to make decisions, with collaboration at the core of everything you do. Help is available from your team and across the business-we are in this together.

Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Engineering environment

Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of their primary tech stack. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or case studies with Women in Tech. We are looking for engineers at all levels who are engaged, care about customers, care about the code they write and contribute 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, and help change banking for good.

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 daily. We code in Java and value clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.

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.

Tech stack

The main part of our Tech Stack is listed below. You do not need experience in all of this, but if you have it, that is great:

Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase
AWS & GCP - cloud-native
Microservice-based architecture
Kubernetes (EKS)
TeamCity for CI / CD (many teams release code 15-20 times per day)
Terraform and Grafana

Hiring process

Interviewing is a two-way process. Our interviews are conversational and you should come with questions. You can expect the following after a chat with our Talent Team:

Initial phone call - 45 minutes
Take-home technical test to discuss in the technical interview - 3 hours
Technical interview - 1.5 hours
Final Interview - 40 minutes

Benefits

25 days holiday (plus public holiday allowance)
Extra day's holiday for your birthday
Annual leave increases with length of service; you can buy or sell up to five extra days
16 hours paid volunteering time per year
Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme
Life insurance at 4x salary & group income protection
Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care; partner discounts
Generous family-friendly policies
Perkbox membership with retail discounts, wellness platform and weekly perks
Initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary-Sacrificed Gym partnerships and EV leasing

Equality and working with us

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide information, we process it in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process and your rights regarding its use.

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