Software Engineer - Java (DBA team)

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2300 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and soon to be Manchester. Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed three million accounts (and four account types!) with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling 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 Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, 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 Starling 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 Starling - 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.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime and Data & ML Engineering. Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and more importantly our customers. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

We are looking for talented data professionals 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 Starling. 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 Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

About the Role:

Working within our engineering team, you will be responsible for the application and infrastructure used to support our PostgreSQL databases. This will include:

• Working within the DBA team to build out our Database Manager application used to manage and monitor our databases.
• Actively deliver on knowledge sharing across the team on Java
• Working with our teams to understand their database needs and make adjustments from an application and infrastructure standpoint. 
• Monitoring and optimising the performance of databases
• Query analysis to understand how our databases are being used
• Allocating for systems requirements and planning future needs
• Working within the team to understand how to manage and maintain Postgres database infrastructure

The ideal candidate will have experience in the following: 

• Experience of software development. Preferably Java
• Experience of using infrastructure as code. Preferably Terraform 
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or GCP) 
• Understanding of Postgres from an administrative and developer perspective
• Self-motivated person able to drive change, take initiative and own their work
• Strong ability to solve complex technical problems
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the business to understand the users needs 

Desirable:

• Knowledge of docker, or Kubernetes 

• Used to working at a senior level able to communicate effectively to achieve their goals

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 - 30 minutes
• Technical Interview - 90 minutes
• Final Interview - 45 minutes