Data Graduates - London, United Kingdom - Starling Bank

Starling Bank

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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 2800 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and Manchester.

Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed 3.5 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.

We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powers our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be.

Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

Important Information

We are looking for Data graduates who are located within a commutable distance of either our London or Manchester office. We are operating a hybrid model of working but inperson learning and collaboration is key for us too
Your first few weeks will be in person with other graduates so you can collaborate and get to know each other and your teams
Application closing date is 1st December

Requirements:

As a Data Graduate at Starling you will:

Contribute to our award-winning platform and internal tooling
Build new models, scale our platforms and deliver insights
Be able to see the impact that your work has on the lives of our millions of customers
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

Tech we use:

At Starling, we use a variety of different tools and technologies to keep our app and business running smoothly.

Whether you're aiming to be Data Engineering, Science, or Analytics - we have a host of things in our tech stack that you would have the opportunity to learn and work with.

Here are some examples:

Languages:
Java, Python and SQL

Tools:
GCP, Dataflow, Dataproc, PostgreSQL, Looker and Terraform
We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience.

For our graduate intake you will need to be a recent university graduate who is ready to start a full time position from April or September 2024.

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:

Oneway Video Screen we'll send you 5 questions for you to record your responses which we'll be looking at your fit for the team, interest in the role and Starling
Takehome tech test (can be solved in any language you are comfortable with) ~3 hours
Technical facetoface interview ~1hr 30 mins
Final Interview ~30 minutes

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