Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead) - Engine by Starling

As an Engineer you will

Requirements

• We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. We are very open about how we deliver software. For the most part we code in Java, but you need not be an expert when you join us! We believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we’d love to hear from you.
• We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.
• As a Staff Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge:
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Delivering change to critical systems in a distributed environment
• Be a highly proficient developer, maintaining a high standard for technical and coding excellence in the collective, through your own work
• Good understanding of DevOps practices
• Delivering complex outcomes across multiple domains and teams
• Working cross-functionally with technologists from other specialties, and non-technical stakeholders across the business
• Coaching and mentoring members of a team to upskill and develop them in their career
• Leading the technical delivery on large scale projects to successful completion
• The main part of our Backend Tech Stack is listed below, we don't ask that you have experience in all of this, but if you do, that's great!
• Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase
• AWS & GCP - we're cloud-native
• Microservice based architecture
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• TeamCity for CI / CD (with multiple production releases per day)
• Terraform and Grafana

Our Interview process

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

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