Engine by Starling

Starling Bank is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking with more than 3,000 people in our UK offices and 4 MILLION customers in the UK! 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. Now we present Engine by Starling. Engine by Starling is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and over a year ago we split out as a separate business. 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. 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. At Engine by Starling, our technologists are at our very heart 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 Engine 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 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 place of work in London, so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. Supporting these activities on client sites means the role will require travel around Europe, and occasional further travel. About the role As a Solution Architect (SA) you will use your understanding of the Engine technology and architecture to explain the Engine product, uncover client requirements and support the design of client solutions. You will be involved in both the sales and delivery phases of a project as well as ongoing client success, collaborating with teams across Engine in Technology, Delivery, Product, Client Success and Business Development. What you'll get to do: This role blends deep technical expertise with strong communication and collaboration skills. You'll become an Engine expert, understanding its architecture, technology, and functionality, allowing you to effectively communicate its capabilities and value to both technical and non-technical audiences. You'll lead on technical designs during the Engine implementation phase, building relationships with a variety of stakeholders within clients and SI partners such as their Engineering leads and Service Owners. You will work closely with our clients and SI partners on the technical detail of implementing Engine, providing solutions to identified requirements and working with our Product and engineering teams to fulfil them. Your contributions will also extend to shaping Engine's product roadmap and supporting existing clients with additional capabilities to meet their strategic aims. You'll help them maximise Engine's current and future capabilities to solve their requirements and meticulously document scope and roadmap decisions to guide subsequent delivery waves, bringing in expertise from our Product Owners and engineering teams where required. You will also be a technical champion for our existing clients, ensuring their ongoing success. This includes taking ownership of the technical aspects of client deliveries, collaborating closely with our SI partners to overcome challenges and achieve seamless integrations. You'll provide expert guidance to client engineering teams, using documentation, API specifications, and sequence diagrams to foster a deep understanding of Engine's architecture and functionalities. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with our Client Success team to troubleshoot technical issues, translate client needs into new technical requirements, and architect innovative solutions that enhance the Engine platform. Requirements Must Have Experience of end-to-end software engineering / solution architecture across the software delivery lifecycle Experience with software service design and integration, such as RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specification and sequence diagrams Experience of cloud infrastructure and large-scale cloud applications Experience working in a client-facing role and building relationships with stakeholders Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills. Experience delivering complex messaging to technical and non-technical stakeholders. You possess fluent English language skills, and are fluent in at least one relevant regional European language (ideally French or Spain) Nice to Have Experience relating to retail or business banking, core banking, card processing or payments. Experience of delivery and implementation of core banking or large-scale digital transformation programmes, application migration and solution integration Commercial acumen with experience of building business cases Experience in a SaaS organisation in a Client Solutions or Client Engineering role Knowledge of financial regulations around the world Speaking multiple european languages is a massive plus About you You have a focus on delivery and getting things done for a client You have the ability to work well with people from a variety of levels, roles and technical backgrounds You're able to communicate clearly about technical subjects You're comfortable working in a varied role, collaboratively in a team, with a flat structure You're comfortable travelling nationally to our London office (initial upskilling will require a period of time working with our Engineers & Product team in London) You're comfortable travelling internationally 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: First Interview (45 mins) - Phone/Video call with existing Engine team members. Second Architecture Interview, including small presentation/system design (90 mins) Final Interview (60 mins) Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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 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 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Starling may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information . click apply for full job details

London, Manchester, Cardiff 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 a year 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling 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 banking worldwide. 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 Engine, to continue changing banking for good. As an Engineer you will: Contribute to our award winning Android app and internal tooling Build new features and products from scratch in a configurable way Share your knowledge with those around you, contributing to our learning culture Own your projects, working in small teams across the bank to collaboratively deliver Aim for greatness in everything you do, staying curious and inquisitive Be part of a scaling team and organisation as we change banking for good You are empowered to make the decisions necessary for the project and to provide insight to the team leads. You'll also be working closely with other Android engineers with a variety of experience levels and interests, helping us improve and develop our Android app, CI automations and tooling. You'll be committing, reviewing and shipping new code right from the first week! Requirements As an Android engineer, you'll report to and catch-up regularly with a mobile lead engineer who will support you on your journey in Engine. We have a strong collaborative and open culture here so you'll find support outside your team too. 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 Engine 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 aim is to deliver stable, resilient and high quality code, that is why testing is another key quality we look for when expanding our team. We use Espresso to write our UI/E2E Test and JUnit to write our Unit Tests across all layers of the application, as well as manually test all features before they go into production. We also work closely with QA engineers to ensure we have an additional level of testing when working on complex feature delivery. The Android world At Engine, we are proud to be working with some of the latest technologies in the industry. When adopting new technologies we always consider as a team whether it's the best choice for our product and our users. We are currently in the process of building a number of SDKs for our clients utilising the modules we've already created in the Starling UK App. We'll be using these to support the development of an app in Romania with Salt Bank and build an entirely new banking app for one of our partners in Australia called AMP Bank, a really exciting opportunity! In the Engine SDKs we generally aim to use the latest technology as our clients would expect, but, we also rely heavily on the existing Starling codebase which uses some older libraries too, so you'll need a good understanding of a wide range of libraries and technologies. We use Dagger, Realm, Retrofit, Coil, Compose, Coroutines and Compose, but there's still a lot of work to do migrating from XML layouts and RxJava2. Building SDKs that we plan to launch internationally can present some new challenges, so if you've ever had experience maintaining a library, contributing to OSS, or have dealt with Internationalisation we'd love to hear about it. If that's all new to you, don't worry, we're learning too! We want our app to look great for the Android platform and have worked closely with our designers to set up a component library and have themed our app accordingly. Feature parity is important to us so Android and iOS apps are often built alongside each other. As a team we meet together every week to talk through pain points and potential improvements we'll like to make to the project. We regularly meet in real life to attend conferences and meet-ups together too! 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: First interview: 45 minutes Take home technical test (no time limit) Technical face to face: 1.5 hours Final Interview: 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we will process, where we will process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information . click apply for full job details

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 a year 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling We're looking for iOS Engineers to work on the Engine Platform and make our existing features work for banks all over the world as well as building new features from scratch that Starling hasn't released in the UK market. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. 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 can make to banking around the world. 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 Engine, to continue changing banking for good. As an Engineer you will: Contribute to our award winning platform and internal tooling Build new features and products from scratch in a configurable way Share your knowledge with those around you, contributing to our learning culture Own your projects, working in small teams across the bank to collaboratively deliver Aim for greatness in everything you do, staying curious and inquisitive Be part of a scaling team and organisation as we change banking for good Requirements 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 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: First interview: 45 minutes Take home technical test (no time limit) Technical face to face: 1.5 hours Final Interview: 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we will process, where we will process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.

Description At , 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 Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. 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. The Engine 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL 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 Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details

Description At , 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 Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. 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. The Engine 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by 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 Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL 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 . click apply for full job details

Description At , 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 Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. 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. The Engine 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 - We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL 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 Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details

Description At , 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 Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. 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. The Engine 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. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine 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 Engine 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 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 - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior / Staff level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by 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 Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL 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 . click apply for full job details

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 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. We draw upon our experience as knowledgeable bankers, and best in class technologists to become the chosen option for these banks, and preferred partners for leading consultancies. 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 the role This role is pivotal within Engine's Product & Technology function, in making sure we understand the client needs and build the right products. We're looking for a Product Manager to join our Lending team to help shape our product in this domain. At Engine, our Lending domain covers our platform's existing and new lending products such as overdrafts, unsecured loans, mortgages and credit cards, as well as cross-cutting lending capabilities such as origination and collections. We're looking for versatile, adaptable individuals who enjoy the challenge of a varied and collaborative role. Prior experience in the lending domain is helpful, but not essential. You'll work closely with the Business Development, Customer Success and Engineering functions to design solutions that meet client needs and support our product strategy. You'll enjoy problem solving, getting to the detail, and understanding how clients can make the best use of our product, whilst designing ways to improve it. Your work will span product strategy, client-facing requirements gathering & solution design, and product ownership in an Engineering context. Your skills and what you'll get to do Navigating Ambiguity: You are entirely comfortable working in an environment where the starting point is clear but the long-term path is undefined. You stay grounded through shifting priorities, view an evolving landscape as a learning opportunity, and thrive within a flat structure. Backlog & Ticket Management: You can write clean, detailed, and unambiguous user stories and requirements issues with explicit acceptance criteria. Technical Literacy: You understand the basic architectural stack of a product area (e.g., frontend vs. backend, what an API does) and enjoy getting into the technical details with engineers. Basic Data Analysis: You are competent with (or ready to quickly master) product analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, ) to track feature usage and leverage quantitative data alongside user feedback to make small-scale trade-offs. Clear Communication & Stakeholder Management: You can clearly explain the "what", "how", and "why" behind the immediate feature backlog to your engineering and design triad, and you confidently flag blockers early to your manager. Active Listening & Coachability: You place a heavy focus on self-development; you actively seek out feedback, take structured notes, and demonstrate visible behavioural changes based on input. Dependability & Handling Ambiguity: You are highly dependable, deliver assigned tasks on time, and remain comfortable navigating ambiguity within a flat, fast-moving team structure. Applications for this role will close on 19th October Requirements Professional Experience: 2 to 5 years of experience in a product management / owner role, engineering, data, business analysis, or highly analytical role, ideally within a fast-paced environment. Eager Learner: A massive appetite for learning, listening, and growing within an organisation that is constantly expanding (Great to have). FinTech Exposure: Prior experience or a strong baseline understanding of FinTech, or a regulated banking/lending environment (Nice to have). Technical Foundation: A product or engineering background, technical experience, or deep technical curiosity (Nice to have). Execution Track Record: Experience managing your own time effectively, meeting deadlines, and delivering well-scoped tasks with some guidance. Educational Foundation: A relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent educational background) with a foundation in Maths or STEM subjects, would be desirable 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: 45 minutes with someone from the Product Management team 1 hour with two more people from the PM team, including a case study 45 minutes with two members of the senior product team. Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we will process, where we will process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.

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 have 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 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 the role We are seeking a senior, highly adaptable Principal Security Programme Manager & Technical Lead to serve as a key technical partner to our Business Information Security Officer (BISO). In this high-visibility role, you will help shape, refine, and execute our strategic security roadmap as we rapidly scale our global fintech ecosystem. You will bridge executive security vision with practical technical delivery-guiding core security initiatives that intersect with the CTO Office while collaborating daily with engineering, SecOps, threat and vulnerability management, and broader group functions. You will also champion secure innovation, ensuring our security posture keeps pace with emerging technologies like AI while embedding technical compliance across key financial standards. This is a balanced role for a collaborative builder and strategist: you will be equally comfortable influencing engineering peers and designing future-state security controls as you are taking direct ownership to deliver technical milestones. Responsibilities Roadmap Architecture & Scaling: Partner directly with the BISO to evaluate, refine, and drive the security roadmap, proactively proposing strategic updates to support rapid business growth. Cross-Functional Execution: Lead core security projects, aligning initiatives across the CTO Office, engineering leads, SecOps, and threat/vulnerability management. AI Security Readiness: Define and roll out practical security guardrails, risk assessments, and safe-use practices for AI/LLM adoption across engineering and business units. Compliance & Governance Alignment: Ensure technical security controls natively satisfy key regulatory frameworks-including ISO 27001, ISO42001, SOC 1/2, PCI DSS & 3DS, CSA C-STAR, and DORA. Pragmatic Technical Advisory: Translate high-level security requirements into actionable, practical guidance for engineering teams without creating delivery bottlenecks. Hands-on Delivery: Drive critical technical work streams directly when needed, taking full ownership of project milestones from inception through to operational handover. Requirements Knowledge & Technical Expertise Fintech or Scale-Up: Deep background in fintech security principles, regulatory demands, and scaling controls within fast-paced environments. AI Security & Innovation: Practical understanding of security considerations surrounding AI integration, data privacy, and model risk management. Frameworks & Compliance: Hands-on experience mapping technical controls to ISO 27001, ISO42001, SOC 1/2, PCI DSS & 3DS, CSA C-STAR, and DORA. Programme Delivery: Strong project and programme management skills, with a proven track record of bringing complex security initiatives to completion. Technical Breadth: Strong technical foundation across SecOps, threat & vulnerability management, and secure engineering. Behaviours & Competencies Influence & Autonomy: Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills; highly self-directed and capable of building cross-functional consensus collaboratively. Strategic & Operational Flexibility: Ability to shift seamlessly between strategic planning and hands-on technical execution. Pragmatic Problem-Solving: A clear focus on enabling business growth and engineering velocity through balanced, practical security controls. Preferred Qualifications Prior experience operating autonomously as an TPM or Technical Lead in a fast paced environment Experience with cloud security architectures. Industry certifications in security, privacy, or compliance (e.g., CISSP). 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, following an initial chat with one of our Talent Team, you can expect: Technical Interview with BISO 45 minutes Live Tech Test with DCTO 90 minutes Final Interview with CTO 60 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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 Work from Abroad policy 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 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. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling 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. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we will process, where we will process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, its retention period, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.