Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.
We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
Our technologists are at the very 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 what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!
The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
Hybrid Working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.
About the Role
Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies and working with others across all areas of the business to bring brilliant products and features to life. Hear from our engineers in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you’ll be building and supporting infrastructure that spans across Google Cloud, AWS and our physical data centres to support our internal operations and interfacing with our software engineering teams to deliver the infrastructure that drives our business. In this particular role, someone with a keen interest in designing scalable and secure data and machine learning platforms would be beneficial.
Responsibilities
1. Working with functional delivery teams to translate business requirements into technical implementations
2. Designing and building patterns and frameworks to be used by engineering teams
3. Taking ownership of projects and ensuring timely delivery
4. Diagnosing system and network failures under pressure
5. Familiarity with distributed systems and immutable infrastructure
6. Keeping abreast of new technologies and changes in the industry
Requirements
What skills are essential:
7. In-depth knowledge of core GCP cloud services
8. Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools
9. System architecture and design
10. Experience with modern development practices and using Python/Golang or scripting languages
11. Experience in building and maintaining containers
What skills are desirable:
12. Knowledge of data- and AI-related GCP services (, Kafka/BigQuery cloud resources)
13. Experience with AWS
14. Experience running services in Kubernetes
15. Track record of maintaining compliant environments PCI-DSS
16. Working knowledge of Linux administration
Interview process
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
17. Initial phone call - ~30 minutes
18. Take home technical test to be discussed in the face to face - ~3 hours
19. Technical face to face - hours
20. Final Interview - ~40 minutes
Benefits
21. 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
22. An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
23. Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
24. 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
25. Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
26. Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
27. Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
28. Generous family-friendly policies
29. Incentives refer a friend scheme
30. Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
31. Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
About us
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.