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Starling Bank 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.
Starling Bank was the first Bank in Britain to be founded by a woman, Anne Boden, back in 2014, and as such looking after and building our diverse teams is important to us and we’re investing in various programmes to help us!
We are proud to have teamed up with Women in Tech as the next step in this ongoing journey.
We have worked for a number of years with Code First Girls, who offer free coding courses to women and non-binary people, read here about 3 women who Starling sponsored to go through the 12 week CFG degree.
Starling is a proud supporter of the Women in Finance Charter, having become a founding signatory in 2017. We believe that this voluntary commitment made by HM Treasury and signatory firms to improve the gender balance in the financial services industry.
We also partnered with Career Returners, an organisation that helps people return to the workplace, who support women and men in finding placements, following a significant period out of the workplace, usually due to caring responsibilities or family commitments.
Learn more about how we are helping improve Gender Diversity here.
Here at Engine, as part of Starling Bank, everything we do falls under 5 core values:
The Always Open forum was created in the spirit of ‘Aiming for Greatness’ and ‘Doing the Right Thing’, focusing and working on diversity and inclusion; with the overall aim of making Starling the bank with the best approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
The forum is made up of volunteers from across all areas of Starling and Engine by Starling, who in turn run the individual network groups that support different areas of diversity.
We currently have five networks; Bend the Bank (LGBTQ+), Embrace (Race and Ethnicity), Mental Health Positive (Mental Health), United Abilities (Disability) and With Women (Women).
The networks plan a variety of events throughout the year to mark national and international awareness days (and other normal days too!), and to foster a sense of community and belonging for everyone, regardless of their background.
Our Tech groups are organised in such a way so you’ll have the chance to be involved in scoping work, architecture, implementation and running of everything your team is responsible for! We have a pretty flat structure, so you need to be prepared to get involved in lots of different areas. We encourage people to own their career and reach for what makes them happy and fulfilled.
We are hiring plenty of super-talented people at the moment, so check out our live roles here.
Our head office is in London, however we also have offices in Cardiff, Manchester and Southampton.
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