Senior Software Engineer - Java

<p>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.</p><p>We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2800 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and Manchester. Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed 3.5 million accounts (and four account types!) with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products.</p><p>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!</p><p>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, and 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.</p><p><strong>Hybrid Working</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Our Engineering Environment</strong></p><p>Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest <a href="https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/why-work-in-tech-at-starling/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">blogs</a> or our case studies with <a href="https://www.womenintech.co.uk/starling-bank-jess-dam-software-engineer" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Women in Tech</a>.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>Ideally, you have at least 5-6 years of experience as a professional software engineer.<br/></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The main part of our Tech Stack is listed below, we don't ask that you have experience in all of this, but if you do, that's great!<br/></p><ul> <li>Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase</li> <li>AWS &amp; GCP - we're cloud-native</li> <li>Microservice based architecture</li> <li>Kubernetes (EKS)</li> <li>TeamCity for CI / CD (lots of team are releasing code 15-20 times per day!)</li> <li>Terraform and Grafana</li> </ul><p><strong>Our process:</strong></p><p>Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:</p><ul> <li>Initial phone call - ~30 minutes</li> <li>Take home technical test to be discussed in the face to face - ~3 hours</li> <li>Technical call - ~1.5 hours</li> <li>Final Interview - ~40 minute</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul> <li>25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)</li> <li>An extra day’s holiday for your birthday</li> <li>Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off!</li> <li>16 hours