Overview

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We built a new kind of bank because technology has the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a transformative way. We are a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices. Our technologists are at the 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 your primary responsibilities; innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid working is part of our approach. We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling — our preference is that you are located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we’re able to interact and collaborate in person. In Technology, we’re asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.

Engineering environment

Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. We value people who care about customers, the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java, and we are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers daily.

Our Android engineers work in cross-functional feature teams within broader engineering groups. You are empowered to make the decisions necessary for the platform and to provide insight to the team leads on projects. You\'ll be committing, reviewing and shipping new code from the first week and collaborating with other Android engineers with a variety of experience levels to improve and develop our Android app, CI automations and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Work in cross-functional feature teams to build, ship and maintain the Android app, CI automations and tooling.
• Make decisions necessary for the platform; provide insight to team leads; commit, review and ship code from week one.
• Collaborate with other Android engineers and designers to improve the app and user experience.
• Share knowledge, streamline processes, and deliver high-quality results for our customers.

Requirements

• As an Android engineer, you will report to a mobile lead engineer and work in a collaborative, open culture.
• Prioritize security when implementing features, fixing bugs or making improvements; focus on accessibility and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Take ownership of the code from building and shipping to maintaining it, and share knowledge to make processes efficient.
• Commit to delivering stable, resilient, high-quality code with testing; we use Espresso for UI/E2E tests and JUnit for unit tests, and we work with QA engineers for complex feature delivery.

Technology & Stack

• The majority of our codebase is Kotlin, with Kotlin-based development; we use MVVM for presentation and RxJava for asynchronous operations.
• We use Dagger for dependency injection and Realm for persistence.
• We place emphasis on a polished Android UI with a shared component library and cross-platform parity with iOS; weekly app updates and automated release steps for safer rollouts.

Interview process

• Initial interview with an engineer
• Take-home tech test
• Live coding
• Tech interview
• Final interview

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus public holiday allowance)
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Annual leave increases with length of service; buy or sell up to five extra days
• 16 hours paid volunteering time per year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension
• Life insurance at 4x salary and group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care; partner benefits include discounts
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox membership with retail discounts and wellness platform
• Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About us / Equal Opportunity

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we\'re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We consider applicants without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so with consent, and we will process your data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes.

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
• Job function: Engineering
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting