Senior Java Software Engineer - Intelligent Operations

Join Starling as part of the Customer Service Engineering group to deliver robust, scalable software that improves how millions of customers interact with banking services. You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values ownership, innovation, and code quality. You’ll contribute to tools and systems that help customers help themselves and support operations with the best tools in a cloud-native, distributed architecture. This role offers the chance to shape customer experiences at a leading digital bank and work across teams to drive reliable, efficient software delivery.

• 25 days holiday
• Birthday day off
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance 4x salary
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth
• Perkbox discounts and wellness platform

• Deliver robust and scalable backend services using Java
• Build and evolve customer self-service tooling and support tools for Operations teams
• Collaborate across teams to enable fast, reliable feature delivery and continuous improvement
• Maintain code quality through clean coding, automated testing, and continuous deployment
• Contribute to a cloud-native, distributed system landscape (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes) and CI/CD processes

• 3–5 years of commercial Java experience (not required to be expert)
• Strong understanding of delivering robust, scalable code and best practices
• Desirable: experience with AWS and Postgres
• Willingness to work in a hybrid, collaborative environment
• Open to various tech stacks with focus on pragmatic, simple solutions

• collaborative
• curious and question-asker
• customer-focused
• Java
• Postgres
• AWS