Starling Bank

Senior iOS Engineer

Starling Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

iOSRealmRxSwiftSwift

About the role

  • Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking!
  • We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.
  • We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.
  • Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be.
  • We are looking for engineers 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.

Requirements

  • As a fully digital bank, we are looking for engineers that are able to 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.
  • 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 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 is 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, 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
  • 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever 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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Hard Skills & Tools
SwiftMVVM-CRxSwiftSnapKitRealmSourcerySwiftGenSwiftFormatSwiftLintUIKit
Soft Skills
self-drivenownershipcollaborationinnovationcustomer careclean codeefficiencyproductivitycommunicationengagement