Jobs at Starling Bank

Supports marketing operations across digital and paid campaigns, events, sponsorships, communications, and partnerships. Coordinates timelines, budgets, vendors, deliverables, and event logistics while monitoring campaign performance. Provides administrative support, maintains marketing documentation and databases, develops operational workflows, identifies process bottlenecks, and improves team productivity through effective use of the marketing technology stack.

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.

Supports the Risk & Compliance team in identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating organizational risks. Responsibilities include maintaining risk registers, coordinating risk assessments and committees, producing management information, conducting horizon scanning, supporting client due diligence and sanctions screening, assisting with third-party risk assessments, monitoring compliance training, and maintaining compliance registers. The role collaborates with Risk, Compliance, InfoSec, Legal, and other business teams to maintain regulatory and policy compliance.

Create high-quality motion design and animation for brand, marketing, campaigns, and social content. Develop concepts, storyboards, and creative explorations; translate static designs into engaging motion; and manage projects from concept through delivery. Collaborate with designers, writers, and marketers while maintaining and evolving the brand’s motion identity. Experiment with 3D, AI, and emerging creative tools, and contribute to shared motion principles and studio knowledge.

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.

Lead user-centered product design for Starling’s mobile, web, and internal products. Own major product and feature designs from concept through execution, collaborate with researchers, writers, engineers, and product managers, evolve design systems, and create inclusive accessible experiences. The role requires strong visual and UX craft, research and validation skills, confident stakeholder communication, and the ability to solve complex problems in a fast-paced fintech environment.

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.

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.

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.

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