Job Specifications
At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.
As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we're looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine's technology to transform banking in different markets around the world. Our purpose is underpinned by five 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 Engine - 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.
About Engineering At Engine By Starling
Platform engineering is something we are passionate about. We pride ourselves on delivering software in a reliable, scalable, reusable and maintainable manner. Our platform is expanding and with that brings new challenges to how we deliver our SaaS. All engineers are responsible for owning features from inception, through deployment, to running in production. Using a first principles approach, we aim to break down problems and implement solutions across every stage of that lifecycle.
As an Engineer at Engine, you'll be helping to build, scale and deploy our first in class cloud native banking platform to multiple cloud providers and regions globally. You will be encouraged to get involved in all areas of our platform. We value a multi-discipline approach to engineering and a culture that supports that. Some of the disciplines you will be exposed to include:
Global Multi-Cloud Architectures
Toolchain Development
Build and Deployment Systems
Observability and Reliability
Runtime Orchestration; Control and Data Planes
SaaS API Management and Security
Core Java Platform
Don't worry if you don't tick every box below! We value curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a desire to work across multiple disciplines. If you're excited by the challenges of building and operating a global, cloud-native platform, we encourage you to apply.
We have a great team - read about our work with Women In Tech, a Day in the life of a Software Engineer at Engine and our interview with our Staff Platform Engineer.
What you'll get to do:
Design, document, build and maintain secure, reliable & scalable infrastructure on AWS
Take on a variety of projects and tasks covering multiple areas of engineering
Work with stakeholders to design hybrid-cloud systems - we use AWS and also co-locate Payment HSMs in physical data centres around the world
Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness
Respond promptly in-hours to technical incidents
Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation
Implement security best practices ensuring platform compliance with ISO27001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
Share knowledge with colleagues by writing technical documentation and leading training sessions
Requirements
Ideally you will be an inquisitive Infrastructure Engineer, with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems. You will be passionate about building observable and reliable systems that impact the wider engineering organisation. The ideal candidate will have:
Experience of architecting and engineering cloud infrastructure to support existing services and develop new ones
Experience with AWS services including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECS, S3, R53, Load Balancing and Direct Connect
Experience of service oriented architecture with containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly terraform
Experience with observability software
Experience with automation using a scripting language such as Golang or Python
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
Understanding concepts of RESTful APIs and web technologies such as API gateways
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Desirably you will have:
Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning
Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks like ISO270001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc) and preferably expe
About the Company
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them ...
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