Jobs at Starling Bank

Owns end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-channel creative projects for Starling’s in-house Creative Studio. Responsibilities include assessing briefs, developing project plans, managing schedules, budgets, resources, risks, approvals, stakeholder relationships, and third-party production partners. The role coordinates film, photography, motion, digital, social, print, and physical outputs while ensuring brand, legal, risk, compliance, quality, timeline, and budget requirements are met.

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.

Support the Data Protection Officer in maintaining bank-wide data protection compliance. Responsibilities include managing DPIAs, personal data breaches, vendor due diligence, Article 30 records, privacy-by-design advice, regulatory horizon scanning, internal control monitoring, compliance reporting, dashboards, training, and advisory work with technology, cybersecurity, vendor management, HR, and other business teams.

Manage high-impact corporate operations projects across Legal, Tax, Finance, People, and other teams. Build project plans, governance frameworks, SOPs, operational playbooks, and executive dashboards supporting international expansion and operational readiness. Coordinate board and leadership initiatives, vendor relationships, SLAs, contract delivery, reporting, risk mitigation, and executive communications. The role requires strong organisation, stakeholder management, process design, data literacy, adaptability, and hands-on project ownership in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Manage complex technical programs spanning interdependent projects, coordinating Engineering, Product, clients, delivery partners, vendors, and payment schemes. Support software development lifecycle planning, capacity and commitment management, risk identification, delivery reporting, and process improvement. The role requires technical fluency, strong communication, adaptability, and experience delivering complex SaaS solutions, preferably in technology or financial services and with cards projects.

Develop, test, document, monitor, and maintain behavioral and interest rate risk models for Treasury’s IRRBB and ALM functions. Analyze customer behavior and bank products, expand Python quantitative tools, support hedging strategies, and provide quantitative modeling expertise across Treasury. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, statistical modeling, applied machine learning, data manipulation, and the ability to communicate complex analysis clearly.

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.

Provide commercial legal support for Engine's SaaS business: draft, negotiate and advise on client and supplier contracts, data protection, international expansion, maintain precedents, manage external counsel and support senior stakeholders on regulatory and commercial matters.

The Senior Statutory Reporting Manager will lead group statutory reporting, manage financial reporting processes, and ensure compliance with IFRS while mentoring team members and driving process improvements.

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.

Perform daily reconciliations of cash and suspense accounts, investigate and resolve transaction breaks, liaise with Payments/Engineering/Treasury teams, escalate outstanding items, maintain procedures, and drive automation and control improvements.

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.

Lead end-to-end procurement for technology, data, operational and people categories. Develop sourcing strategies, build commercial models, manage contract renewals and negotiations, oversee in-contract performance and vendor relationships, maintain procurement workflows, and report to senior stakeholders while advocating procurement best practices.

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.

Lead and scale Engine's business development across a defined European cluster: own market entry and sales execution, build and manage executive banking relationships, close complex SaaS deals, coordinate with central teams on solutions and propositions, provide regional market feedback, and scale local integrated teams. May act as Client Relationship Director through implementation and run phases.

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

The role involves producing regulatory IRRBB reporting, ensuring accuracy, developing ETL processes, and managing risk reporting outputs.