Talent Acquisition Specialist - Tech - 12 month FTC

Hello, we’re Starling . We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone.

About the role

Reporting in to the Talent Acquisition Partner for Technology, this role will focus on supporting our growth within the Engine by Starling (SaaS) Software Engineering team, as we look to sell Starling’s award-winning software to banks all around the world.

Notably, you’ll help us hire, at scale, Backend Java Engineers, Platform Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers, across most of our including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Southampton and Dublin.

This role is available on an initial 12-month Fixed Term Contract. 

This job will close for applications on Monday 21st July .

What you’ll get to do:

• Proactively sourcing and headhunting top quality Java Engineering talent whilst implementing new and innovative ways of finding the best for us.
• Manage the end to end recruitment process shortlisting and conducting first round interviews; evaluating candidates and providing feedback; through to offer negotiation and onboarding.
• Use your Candidate Centric mindset to ensure all candidates have a great experience whilst managing volume across all roles.
• Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Partner to build, and manage MI to help drive data driven decisions about our sourcing strategy and hiring process.
• Championing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) by integrating inclusive hiring practices into every stage of the recruitment process.
• Attend and organise attendance at events to help raise awareness of Starling Bank, being a brand ambassador and always looking for new ways to showcase Starling as an employer of choice.
• Continually look to improve processes to improve candidate experience, business experience and internal workflows.

Your TA toolset: You’ll have access to LinkedIn Recruiter, Otta and cord to source candidates, as well as Workable as our ATS, Slack and Google Workspace for collaborating hiring managers and teams.

Requirements

About your skills:

• At least 4+ years experience hiring Software Engineers, ideally Java/JVM/Backend Engineers, at scale
• A blend of agency experience plus time in a talent acquisition role within an in-house function is preferred
• Attention to detail. It’s the little things that matter, you should be able to demonstrate giving great candidate experience.
• Be data driven and look at ways to ensure we are being proactive with hiring across technology and driving decisions using data with hiring managers.
• Ability to work at pace, things move fast here at Starling so you’ll need to be comfortable working quickly.
• Ideally, but not essentially, you will have experience:
• Organising recruitment focussed events such as meetups, socials, careers events.
• Recruiting internationally

Interview process:

• First with Talent Acquisition Partner
• Second with Talent Acquisition Partner and someone else form the TA team
• Final with Head of Talent Acquisition and someone from the Engine Engineering team

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Incentives refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

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