Jobs at Starling Bank

Lead Starling’s performance marketing strategy across paid search, social, programmatic, app marketing, affiliates, partnerships, and emerging channels. Own substantial media budgets and optimize acquisition volume, CAC, payback, and customer value through experimentation, attribution, forecasting, and data-led investment decisions. Partner with product, CRM, web, data, creative, and brand teams; manage agencies and platforms; promote AI and automation; ensure regulatory compliance; and build a high-performing performance marketing team.

Manage daily regulatory transaction reporting (EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR), resolve exceptions, support end-to-end treasury trade lifecycle across FX, Repo, Fixed Income and OTC Derivatives, drive process automation, and coordinate with Front Office, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Legal to ensure regulatory compliance and delivery of projects.

Manage end-to-end procurement across technology, data, operational services, and people categories. Responsibilities include supplier sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, renewals, cost savings, commercial opportunity identification, procurement process development, stakeholder engagement, and supplier-risk onboarding. The role requires more than five years of procurement experience, strong negotiation and analytical skills, contract-markup experience, and the ability to manage senior stakeholders in a financial-services environment.

Lead end-to-end procurement across technology, data, operational services, and people categories. Responsibilities include supplier sourcing and evaluation, negotiation, contract development, renewals, cost savings, commercial opportunity identification, procurement process improvement, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration with Supplier Risk teams on compliant onboarding.

Build and enhance Engine by Starling’s cloud-native banking platform and internal tooling. Develop configurable features and products, contribute to microservice-based backend systems, own projects, collaborate across teams, and help lead projects or functional domains. The role emphasizes Java development, clean code, automated testing, continuous deployment, knowledge sharing, and solving complex technical problems in a collaborative engineering environment.

Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, scalable GCP infrastructure across regions and cloud providers. Lead automation, disaster recovery, observability, identity, key and secret management, hybrid connectivity, compliance, and CI/CD initiatives. Diagnose infrastructure issues, document architecture and operating practices, train colleagues, and lead complex projects from design through production. The role also shapes platform tooling, architecture, and engineering standards while contributing to a cloud-native banking platform.

Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, scalable GCP infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers. Responsibilities include cloud organization architecture, disaster recovery, automation with Terraform, Kubernetes platforms, networking, key and secret management, observability, CI/CD, compliance, and hybrid connectivity to payment HSMs. The role leads complex infrastructure projects, resolves client issues, documents architecture and operations, trains engineers, and establishes technical standards.

Serve as the senior subject matter expert for card payments across design, implementation, operations, incidents, and technical change. Translate Visa and Mastercard scheme requirements into technical and operational requirements, advise engineering and business teams, support issue resolution, and ensure compliance with payment rules, controls, governance, and regulatory requirements. Provide expertise across issuing, acquiring, authorization, clearing, settlement, disputes, chargebacks, fraud, EMV configuration, card production, and third-party relationships.

Develop and maintain Android banking applications, SDKs, internal tooling, and new features. Build clean, accessible, secure, resilient code; write unit and UI/E2E tests with JUnit and Espresso; review and ship code; contribute to CI automation and tooling; collaborate across teams; and support international app development and library migration.

Provides legal advice on retail banking products, consumer credit, payments, and strategic initiatives. Interprets regulatory change, assesses legal and regulatory risk, supports product and engineering teams, contributes to governance decisions, engages with FCA and PRA regulators, and manages external counsel. The role requires a UK-qualified lawyer with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience and strong financial services regulatory expertise.

Provide legal advice on retail banking products, consumer credit, payments, and strategic initiatives. Interpret regulatory changes, assess legal and regulatory risks, support product and engineering teams, participate in governance forums, engage with FCA and PRA regulators, and manage external counsel. The role requires pragmatic, commercially focused guidance across retail consumer and SME banking services under a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Owns card payment product expertise, serving as the technical contact for Visa and Mastercard schemes. Responsibilities include tracking and implementing scheme mandates, ensuring compliance, supporting card projects, resolving incidents and bugs, gathering client requirements, assisting solution design, and maintaining product documentation. The role partners closely with engineering, product, solution architecture, delivery, and client success teams while managing multiple workstreams and escalations.

Oversee and execute Finance control testing plans in a regulated banking environment. Responsibilities include guiding and training testers, reviewing operating-effectiveness testing and sample sizes, assessing evidence-based conclusions, maintaining accurate GRC documentation, providing feedback, and conducting hands-on testing when needed.

Lead Starling’s post-quantum cryptography strategy and cryptographic agility roadmap. Design secure cloud-native and on-premise architectures across AWS and GCP, provide expertise in PKI, HSMs, KMS, key management, and transport security, and conduct threat modeling and risk assessments. Review architecture documents, guide engineering teams, develop proofs of concept, establish cryptographic standards, and communicate security risks and recommendations to technical and senior stakeholders.

Lead technical solution design for Engine by Starling implementations, from sales through delivery and ongoing client success. Explain platform architecture, uncover requirements, design integrations, and guide client and systems-integrator engineering teams using APIs, documentation, and sequence diagrams. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Client Success teams to resolve issues, shape the product roadmap, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions. The role requires strong stakeholder communication, client-facing experience, European language fluency, and international travel.

As a Senior Penetration Tester, you will conduct security tests on mobile, web, and cloud applications, collaborate with engineering teams to enhance security practices, automate security testing, and provide reports on security vulnerabilities.

Design and elevate Starling's digital brand across web and marketing channels. Create high-quality web experiences, translate briefs into digital executions, use analytics and user feedback to iterate, hand over production-ready design files, collaborate with writers, marketers and developers, and evolve brand expression through motion and interaction.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead projects, enhance tooling, collaborate with teams and clients, and uphold technical standards within a hybrid work environment.

The Database SRE will ensure the reliability of the RDS footprint, architect cloud portability, monitor performance, and implement disaster recovery strategies.

The iOS Engineer will build and maintain Starling's banking mobile app, focusing on security, user experience, and clean code delivery.