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Senior Android Engineer
About Starling Bank
Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank, driven by a mission to revolutionise banking. We blend a financial institution’s security and licensing with the speed and innovation of a cutting-edge tech company.
Our Why
We were built by technologists for technologists, obsessed with creating tools that simplify saving, spending, and managing finances. Our culture is flat and collaborative, prioritising expertise and individual growth while empowering everyone to innovate.
Our Values
Our culture thrives on five core values:
- Listen – Actively engage with users, teams, and the business.
- Keep It Simple – Prioritise clarity and efficiency.
- Do The Right Thing – Integrity in actions and decisions.
- Own It – Take responsibility for your work and the team’s success.
- Aim For Greatness – Stretch yourself and the business to exceed expectations.
Our Tech & Culture
We’re a fully remote-first bank with core offices in London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester. For technology roles, minimum in-office presence: 1 day/week.
The Android Engineering Role
We hire at all levels and value engineers who are caring about the product, passionate about building great features, and eager to collaborate across the organisation. As a Senior Android Engineer, you’ll accelerate banking innovation by working on our award-winning app (Awwwards Mobile App of the Year).
Your Responsibilities
- Build & Optimise – Develop, improve, and maintain our Kotlin-first app (MVVM, Dagger, RxJava).
- Release Responsibility – Rotate as release manager, shipping bi-weekly updates.
- Ship Self-Driving Change – Enhance test coverage (Espresso, JUnit) and refining our CI tooling suite.
- Collaborate – Pair with designers, DevOps, and QA to prototype experiments and production features.
- Stakeholder Leadership – Mentor junior engineers, advise on technical direction, and act as the bridge between idea and implementation.
- Privilege – Review new technologies fairly for the business’s benefit and our users.
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Who We Are Looking For
You’ll thrive if you:
- Have 3+ years of production Android experience, with knowledge of Kotlin, dependency injection, and coroutines.
- Uphold security in product design, never approaching it as an afterthought.
- Are passionate about accessible code – code readability and robustness matter as much as speed.
- Flourish in an all-engineering team environment but aren’t shy to collaborate with designers and QA.
- Are detail-oriented without getting lost in analytic flaws.
- Enjoy owning large projects end-to-end with agency over how to achieve success.
Why Work Here?
- Growth: Our engineering organisation started with founders and now scales with thousands of people—cultural values endure yet evolve with the company.
- Impact: Transform effortlessly trusted-banking interfaces into world-class digital solutions.
- Flexibility: Hybrid work with geographical proximity, financially robust.
Work Perks
| Benefit | Details |
|---|---|
| Paid Leave | 25 days + public holidays as chosen + birth-day bonus. Junior (0-2yrs): 26 days; Intermediate (3-6yrs): 27 days; Advanced (7+yrs): 28 days. Optional buy/sell policies available. |
| Wellbeing | Life insurance (4×s. salary), GP access (Vitality), professional mental health courses. |
| Lifestyle | £1,500 yearly volunteering budget, Rock Horizon’s boutique career courses, and travel access. |
| Flexible Workspaces | Cycle-to-work scheme, EV leasing, and gym partnerships. |
| All-Rounds Support | Free meals, well-being budget, financial health checks – signalling our commitment to holistic development. |
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Interview Process
- Discover our Culture: Informal chats initiate every applicant’s journey.
- Virtual Assessment:
- Salary-led ake-up with Talent
- Technical test challenge (subset of production-grade problem domains)
- Live Coding Session (complete working, production-ready code)
- Technical & Leadership Interview (grouped panel on impact/error-crafting)
- Final interview with leadership (Peer + Hiring Manager)
Diversity & Inclusion
Our past isn’t defined by rigid traits. Instead, we embrace and learn from diversity for greater innovation. Breaking industry norms with people who challenge each other to do more and become our resilience.
Mission-Critical Quantifications
- Team Size: ~12 senior Android specialists rabidly supporting new releases and team hygiene.
- Heightened Bar: Tracks measure our global-grade compliance.
Launch yourself: Be self-driven, joyardless collaborate with team and society, and build transformative tools. Whether career move or desk-by-desk change, we’ll judge by initiative—apply blindly equipped with courage.
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