Android Engineer Full Time

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As for the role; Starling Bank is looking for an Android Engineer to join their company. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.”

– Startup of London Team

The Role

Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies, and working with others across all business areas to bring brilliant products and features to life. We enjoy working with engineers who are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from our engineers in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

Our mobile engineers work in cross-functional feature teams arranged across broader engineering groups. You are empowered to make the decisions necessary for the platform and to provide insight to the team leads on such projects. You’ll also be working closely with other Android engineers with a variety of experience levels and interests, helping us improve and develop our Android app, CI automation, and tooling. You’ll be committing, reviewing and shipping new code right from the first week!

In the Starling Android application 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 have a strong collaborative and open culture here so you’ll find support outside your team too.

Requirements

As a fully digital bank, we are looking for engineers that can understand and prioritise security when implementing new features, fixing bugs, or making technical improvements, across all the layers. Our team is designing, building, and releasing new screens every day, for this reason, we are interested in people with a particular focus on Accessibility along with writing clean and maintainable code.

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building the code, shipping, and maintaining it, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers.

We aim to deliver stable, resilient, and high-quality code, which is why testing is another key quality we look for when expanding our team. We use Espresso to write our UI/E2E Tests 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.

Benefits

Starling technology works in a hybrid pattern from home and one of our three offices. We’re open to applications from across the UK including fully remote if you’re a hybrid our preference is that you’re located within a commutable distance to either our London, Southampton, or Cardiff office so that we’re able to see each other and collaborate in person too.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus public holidays)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday, take a week on either side of the day
• 16 hours of paid volunteering time a year
• Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
• Hybrid/remote working
• 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
• Enhanced sick pay
• Contributory pension scheme
• Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
• Perkbox membership gives access to retail discounts, a cashback scheme, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, a birthday box, and weekly free coffee
• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme

Full details are available on our careers site

About Us:

Starling is a leading digital bank on a mission to disrupt the banking industry.

Since our launch in 2014, we’ve surpassed 2 million accounts, including over 350,000 business accounts. Our total deposits, meanwhile, have topped £5 billion and we have lent over £2bn over the same period. We’re a fully licensed UK bank, and we have the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive technology company. We’ve won the Best British Bank award four years running, and now employ over 1500 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff & Dublin offices.

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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