Senior Software Engineer, Starling Bank
Java
1-5 days a week in office
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
Job no longer available
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
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
- Ideally, you have at least 5-6 years of experience as a professional software engineer
What the job involves
- 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!
- 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 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
- We are very open about how we deliver software. For the most part we code in Java and we believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we’d love to hear from you
- 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
Application process
- Initial phone call - ~30 minutes
- Take home technical test to be discussed in the face to face - ~3 hours
- Technical call - ~1.5 hours
- Final Interview - ~40 minutes
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
$168.2m
LATE VC
Jun 2021
$45.1m
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
Founders
Anne Boden
(Founder)Held senior roles in finance over a 30 year career, including COO for AIB and Head of EMEA for RBS.
Diversity & 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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