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# Staff Software Engineer - Engine by Starling

- **Company:** Starling Bank
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Computing Environment, Grafana, Kubernetes, Teamcity, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-D6ED825342F96A9F62/

## About the Role

We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. We are very open about how we deliver software. For the most part we code in Java, but you need not be an expert when you join us! We believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you.

We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.

As a Staff Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge:

 * Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment
 * Be a highly proficient developer, maintaining a high standard for technical and coding excellence in the collective, through your own work
 * Good understanding of DevOps practices
 * Delivering complex outcomes across multiple domains and teams
 * Working cross-functionally with technologists from other specialties, and non-technical stakeholders across the business
 * Coaching and mentoring members of a team to upskill and develop them in their career
 * Leading the technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion

## Description

* Java, which makes up the majority of our Back End codebase
 * AWS & GCP - we're cloud-native
 * Microservice based architecture
 * Kubernetes (EKS)
 * TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day)
 * Terraform and Grafana

Our 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:

 * Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes
 * Take home technical test to be discussed in the next interview
 * Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours
 * Final interview with our CTO/deputy CTO 45 minutes


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