Frontend Engineer - Engine

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.

Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.

As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we’re looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world. Our purpose is underpinned by five values:
Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.

We’re looking for Frontend Engineers to work on the Engine Management Portal to take our existing features and make them work for banks all over the world and build new features from scratch that Starling hasn’t released in the UK market.

Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in some case studies, below, and our work with Women In Tech.

• Leading at the Frontend
• Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
• Check out our shiny new Engineering careers page

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer 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 banking worldwide. 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 Engine, to continue changing banking for good.

• Contribute to our award winning platform and internal tooling
• Build new features and products from scratch in a configurable way
• Share your knowledge with those around you, contributing to our learning culture
• Own your projects, working in small teams across the bank to collaboratively deliver
• Aim for greatness in everything you do, staying curious and inquisitive
• Be part of a scaling team and organisation as we change banking for good

Ideally you…

• Have at least 4 years of experience as a professional front-end engineer
• Will have experience with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and know React very well
• Demonstrate experience building accessible websites and secure web applications that consume RESTful APIs and perform well.
• Love coding in front-end technologies - from navigating REST APIs to tweaking that last bit of CSS to get the design system just right.
• Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
• Like to take ownership of features from the original idea through to live.
• Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.

The main part of our Frontend Tech Stack is listed below, we don't ask that you have experience in all of this, but if you do, that's great!

• HTML/CSS/JS (and increasingly Type Script, too) with React used pretty much everywhere
• Associated libraries and frameworks like Next.
  
  JS, Gatsby, Redux, React Query and more
• Design system management (Storybooks are fairly common, little bit of CSS-in-JS, too)
• Testing tools like Jest and React Testing Library for the most part

We also stray into infrastructure work from time to time, using tools like AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloud Front, GCP or Firebase. Experience of all of these is not required, but some familiarity…