iOS Engineer Full Time

The Role

Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies, and working with others across all areas of the business 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 mobile engineers with a variety of experience levels and interests. Expect to be committing, reviewing, and shipping new code right from the first week!

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.

Our application is in the top chart of finance apps in the UK, with over 300K ratings and an average rating of 4.9. We also won the Best British Banking App award in 2021!

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’s 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 are 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, and 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.

Benefits

Starling technology works in a hybrid pattern both from home and in 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.

• 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

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 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.