Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2300 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and soon to be Manchester. Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed three million accounts (and four account types!) with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products.
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, and 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.
Our Engineering Environment
Starling 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.
Responsibilities:
- Embed yourself in feature-focused engineering groups
- Provide guidance and best practices to engineering groups in terms of schema modelling (in Postgres) for operational databases
- Ensure a consistent approach for data across engineering groups
- Ensure best practices for data modelling in our data warehouse, including providing easy-to-use documentation on our data products to downstream users
- Ensure monitoring of all data dictionary metadata is complete and of a good quality
- Look after the implementation of our data quality standards end–to-end i.e. from data sources to data products
- Monitor data quality metrics and, when necessary, take action to rectify problems in that area
- Liaise with consumers of data products, in particular, the data practice leads
- Be close to both the feature engineering team and the (cross-engineering) data product specialist team (e.g. by attending stand-ups for both groups, collaborating on documentation, standards, etc.)
- Maintain strong relationships with Data, Data Architecture, and Data Management functions
- Have a strong understanding of relevant policies (e.g. information, data, risk)
- Have (or develop) a strong understanding of data management/governance best practices and standards
Requirements:
- Successful track record as a Database Engineer
- Strong understanding of relational database architectures
- Experience in data modelling
- Experience with PostgreSQL is preferred, although we are happy to consider strong candidates with experience in other RDBMS who are willing to cross-train into PostgreSQL
- Experience with procedural database languages such as PL/pgSQL, PLSQL, or T-SQL
Desirable but not essential:
- Some exposure to Java or similar languages
- dbt (Data Build tool) experience
- AWS RDS and/or GCP BigQuery experience
- Data warehouse architecture and design
- Source control, continuous integration, software deployment or automated build tooling
- Experience with dimensional modelling
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
- 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
- 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 and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
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.
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 protected by applicable law.
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