Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead) - Engine by Starling · Engine by Starling

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:15:38 GMT
Engineering

Engine by Starling · Southampton · hybrid
At Engine by Starling, we're on a mission to work with leading banks worldwide who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses on our technology. As a Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead), you will coach, mentor, and grow a high-performing team, ensuring their well-being as they work on high-impact solutions that bring value to Engine and our customers. You will have the opportunity to lead multiple complex projects from inception through to run, get hands-on when needed, using your strong system design skills to help the team make smart architectural decisions and unblock complex challenges. You will take ownership of technical challenges critical to the success of the business, identify where existing tooling, applications, or processes can be enhanced and deliver innovative change. Collaborate with clients, solution architects, product owners, and other engineers to help meet the client goals. Obtain a wide and varied understanding of how banks operate around the world. Shape the future capabilities of Engine, including our approach, tooling, automation, and architecture. As an Engineer, you will 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, and aim for greatness in everything you do, staying curious and inquisitive. We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. 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.