Jobs at Starling Bank

Own complex client delivery workstreams for financial institutions implementing Engine’s SaaS banking platform. Build trusted client relationships, lead discovery and solution design, coordinate Product and Engineering teams, track milestones and risks, and guide implementations from discovery through go-live and operational handover. Contribute to delivery methodology and practice development as the Client Solutions function scales globally.

Serve as the bridge between banking clients and Engine’s SaaS platform. Lead delivery workstreams, client discovery, solution design, cross-functional coordination, milestone reporting, and transitions into operational support. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and solution architecture teams to implement scalable technology solutions. The role also involves facilitating workshops, managing stakeholder relationships, and improving client delivery methodologies.

Supports the Business Development and sales teams with RFI, RFP, and bid preparation, NDA management, sales resource coordination, commercial tool setup, meeting administration, HubSpot data hygiene, onboarding, calendar management, workshops, events, and travel logistics. The role also coordinates internal communications and supports regional sales operations across a global team.

The Java Software Engineer will develop robust and scalable code for customer services using Java, AWS, and Postgres, while advocating for clean coding and best practices.

Manage complex, interdependent technical programs across Engineering, Product, clients, delivery partners, payment schemes, and technology vendors. Coordinate software development lifecycle dependencies, capacity planning, commitments, risks, delivery reporting, and process improvements. The role requires technical fluency, strong communication, stakeholder management, adaptability, and experience delivering SaaS or financial services solutions, with card project experience highly desirable.

Lead end-to-end product design across mobile SDKs and web portals for digital banking products. Own discovery through delivery, solve complex problems with product and engineering teams, conduct research, develop multi-brand design systems, and champion accessible, inclusive experiences. The role balances enterprise client and end-customer needs across multiple markets while ensuring high-quality, well-documented designs that support configuration and adoption.

Build and support infrastructure across physical data centers, AWS, and GCP. Design secure network topologies, automate infrastructure provisioning, maintain containers and Linux systems, and develop reusable infrastructure tooling. Collaborate with software engineering, security, and developer experience teams; diagnose critical system and network failures; implement infrastructure patterns, improve operational efficiency, and lead projects through timely delivery.

Create clear, accessible, on-brand content for Starling’s app, online banking, and customer communications. Simplify complex financial concepts, collaborate with product designers, managers, and researchers, use research and data to guide copy decisions, meet regulatory requirements, maintain consistency, and develop content guidance, templates, and frameworks.

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

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.

Build and maintain Engine by Starling’s banking platform and internal tooling. Develop configurable features and products from scratch, contribute to automated testing and continuous deployment, collaborate across small teams, own projects, and share technical knowledge. The role primarily involves backend development in Java within a cloud-native, microservices-based environment using AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, TeamCity, and Grafana.

Leads Starling Bank’s UK and international indirect tax strategy, compliance, governance, VAT planning, and tax risk management. Advises executive leadership on corporate transactions, reorganisations, IPO planning, international expansion, and product development. Partners with Finance, Engineering, and Technology teams to automate ERP tax processes and support digital invoicing. Manages external advisers, tax authority engagements, audits, disputes, and indirect tax training across the organisation.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery of lending products including overdrafts, loans, mortgages, and credit cards. Gather client requirements, define solutions, prioritize features, manage delivery risks, and collaborate with Engineering, Design, QA, Business Development, Delivery, and Customer Success. Serve as a lending product subject matter expert in client and sales conversations while driving scalable products across different market contexts.

Lead Starling’s Payments function, overseeing payment risk, controls, regulatory and scheme compliance, supplier governance, incident management, operational resilience, change risk, and reporting. The role requires leadership across Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, payment schemes, and critical third parties. The Payments Director will manage a high-performing team, ensure payment services remain safe and resilient, and provide senior oversight of incidents, remediation, governance, and emerging risks.

Develop and support mission-critical finance systems, including bank ledgers and integrations. Design reliable, maintainable services, collaborate with accountants, treasurers, and internal stakeholders, and contribute throughout the project lifecycle. Engineers will work primarily with Java in a cloud-native environment using PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, and CI/CD tooling. The role emphasizes transaction accuracy, financial process automation, system resilience, and solving complex technical problems.

Maintain and scale Starling’s PostgreSQL RDS fleet using Terraform and Java automation. Build observability and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, and Humio; implement business continuity, disaster recovery, failover, replication, and cross-cloud portability using CloudNativePG. The role requires database performance tuning, distributed systems expertise, secure automation, and production Java microservices development.

Lead Starling’s Technology Operations team across multiple offices, supporting Mac and Windows environments, managed systems, networks, internal users, and external partners. Responsibilities include team leadership, incident escalation, supplier coordination, IT project support, hardware lifecycle management, operational improvement, and performance dashboard development. The role requires maintaining high service standards across a 24/7 banking operation with coverage from 7am to 10pm, Monday through Sunday.

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.

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.