iOS Engineer - Manchester

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for engineers at all levels to join our team.
• We want engineers who are self-driven and able to take full ownership of their work.
• We are looking for people who care about customers, the code they write, and the contribution they make to Starling.
• We want people with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges and who can work across teams.
• We are looking for engineers who can understand and prioritise security when implementing new features, fixing bugs, or making technical improvements.
• We are interested in people with a particular focus on accessibility and writing clean, maintainable code.
• We want iOS engineers who can produce robust, well-tested code.
• We want iOS engineers who care about the product, user experience, and design.
• UIKit knowledge is a must.
• Experience with reactive programming is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities:

• Build, design, discover, share knowledge, and help keep processes efficient and productive.
• Work on building the tooling that our engineers use on a daily basis.
• Work in cross-functional feature teams within broader engineering groups.
• Make the decisions necessary for the platform and provide insight to team leads on projects.
• Work closely with other mobile engineers across a range of experience levels and interests.
• Commit, review, and ship new code right from the first week.
• Build, maintain, and release new screens every day.
• Work on our feature-rich mobile app used by millions of customers.
• Build software using our in-house iOS application stack, including UIKit and Swift.
• Contribute to robust testing and code quality practices using our tooling and frameworks.

Technologies:

• Support
• Mobile
• MVVM
• RxSwift
• Security
• Swift
• UIKit
• iOS
• Java

More:

We are Starling, the UKs first and leading digital bank, on a mission to fix banking. We are a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company, and we employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester offices. Our engineers work in a fast-paced, collaborative, open culture with a flat structure that empowers decision-making and innovation. We offer a hybrid working approach, with technology team members attending the office a minimum of 1 day per week and located within commutable distance of one of our offices. Our iOS application is written entirely in Swift, is highly modular, and uses MVVM-C architecture, RxSwift, SnapKit, Realm, Sourcery, SwiftGen, SwiftFormat, SwiftLint, and Danger, alongside in-house tools and frameworks focused on developer productivity and automation. Benefits include 25 days holiday, an extra day for your birthday, enhanced leave options, paid volunteering time, pension, life insurance, private medical insurance with mental health support, family-friendly policies, retail and wellness perks, and access to cycle to work, gym, and EV leasing initiatives. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

last updated 35 week of 2026