Engineering careers

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Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies and working with others across all areas of the business to bring brilliant products and features to life.

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“As a Starling engineer, I work on projects that directly impact the user experience of our customers, as well as how they manage their money and interact with their bank. What I really love is the freedom and responsibility to manage my own projects and time. I feel trusted and empowered to prioritise tasks, and I am learning new things all the time.”

Teresa

Teresa

Engineering Lead

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“Working in small cross-functional teams means we can work on multiple projects concurrently, deliver quickly, reduce technical debt and share knowledge & expertise.”

Josh

Josh

Engineering Lead

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Benefits

  • 25 days holiday, increased with length of service.

  • Take your bank holiday allowance whenever works best for you.

  • Have an extra day off on your birthday!

  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.

  • Ability to buy or sell annual leave.

  • Company enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme with Royal London.

  • Life insurance at 4x your salary with MetLife.

  • Private medical insurance with Vitality, including structured mental health support and cancer care.

  • Access to professional services such as bereavement support and legal counsel.

  • 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 Cycle to Work scheme, season ticket loans to spread the cost of travel and salary sacrificed gym partnerships.

Building a better bank

Starling is technology-led. As a Starling engineer, you’ll have a lot of freedom to accomplish your goals in the way you want. We have no estimates, no story points, no t-shirt sizes. You’re responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining the code, as well as supporting features and products in production using our service-based cloud architecture.

Working in engineering at Starling means deploying code daily. You’ll be working out how to deliver new banking features in a way that ensures the security and reliability of the system. We’re offering you a hugely exciting challenge - to join our team as we scale up towards having millions of accounts.

Read our engineering blog posts to learn more about the team and what they get up to.

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Some of the tech you’ll get to work with

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Ready to come on board?

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