iOS Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will help build and maintain Starling’s in-house iOS app, delivering secure, accessible experiences to millions of customers. You’ll work in cross‑functional teams in a fast‑paced, collaborative culture that values ownership and simplicity. The role blends hands-on coding with shaping the mobile product, architecture, and developer tooling to improve reliability and user experience. This is an opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven fintech that reshapes banking for good.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Birthday leave
• Pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth
• Life insurance 4x salary
• Waitrose discounts and Peloton perks

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the iOS app using UIKit with MVVM-C architecture
• Collaborate in cross-functional feature teams, contributing to architecture and delivery
• Prioritize security and accessibility in new features, bug fixes, and improvements
• Write clean, maintainable code and ship features from early in the project
• Contribute to in-house tools and frameworks to boost developer productivity
• Commit, review, and ship code from the first week, ensuring high quality and testing
• Balance simplicity with capability to reduce complexity and faults

Key requirements

• Proficient in Swift and UIKit
• Experience with MVVM-C architecture
• Focus on accessibility and security in implementation
• Ownership mindset: build, ship, and maintain code and processes
• Knowledge of or exposure to RxSwift; strong reactive programming foundation (plus)
• Familiarity with automation and code quality tools (e.g., SwiftFormat, SwiftLint, Danger) (plus)
• Experience with UIKit concepts and components is a must
• Comfort working in a cross-functional environment and contributing to product design

• Self-driven
• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Customer/citizen mindset toward product quality
• Swift
• UIKit
• MVVM-C

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