Full Stack Developer (part-time) – REMOTE

Job 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 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 WorkingWe have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling – our preference is that you’re located within a commutable distance of our London or Southampton offices so that we’re able to interact
and collaborate in person. Our Engineering EnvironmentStarling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our
case studies with Women in Tech.We are looking for engineers at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling.
People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.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.Our mobile engineers work in cross-functional feature teams arranged
across broader engineering groups. You are empowered to make the decisions necessary for the platform and to provide insight to the team leads on such projects. You’ll also be working closely with other mobile engineers
with a variety of experience levels and interests. Expect to be committing, reviewing and shipping new code right from the first week! 

Requirements

As a fully digital bank, we are looking for engineers that are able to understand and prioritise security when implementing new features, fixing bugs or making technical improvements, across
all the layers. Our team is designing, building and releasing new screens every day, for this reason we are interested in people with a particular focus on Accessibility along with writing clean and maintainable code.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 the code, shipping and maintaining it, 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 application is in the top chart of finance apps in the UK, with over 300K ratings and an average rating
of 4.9. Our iOS application is entirely written in Swift. It is highly modular and we use MVVM-C architecture to maximise code reusability and testing. We also value simplicity over complexity, fewer moving parts means fewer
faults and easier comprehension.Some of the well known frameworks and tools we use: RxSwift – as our reactive programming framework; SnapKit – as our auto layout DSL, though we have an in-house framework built on top of
SnapKit which allows us to write declarative, SwiftUI like layout code for UIKit. Realm – as the application main persistence layer; Sourcery and SwiftGen – for various code generation tasks. SwiftFormat, SwiftLint and Danger
– to enforce high code quality standards. Etc. We also built in-house tools and frameworks as developer productivity and automation is paramount to us.We are looking for iOS engineers to work on these apps who: Want to work
on a feature rich mobile app with millions of customers; Can produce robust, well tested code that will give our customers the reliability that they need; Care about the product, the user experience and the design; Think
(like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software; Our application is built with UIKit, knowing its concepts and components is a must. We use RxSwift in our project, experience with
reactive programming will be a plus but is not required. Interview processInterviewing 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 phone call: ~45 minutes Take home
technical test (no time limit) Technical face to face: ~1.5 hours Final Interview: ~45 minutes

Benefits

25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you) An extra day’s
holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith
and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access
to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About UsYou 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.Starling
Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race,
religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic
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