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Building an entirely new kind of bank doesn’t happen overnight – and it takes a village. At Starling Bank, our village is populated by a diverse team of engineers and developers working together to build and run the UK’s first mobile only bank account, through agile development processes and leading tech.
Fellow software developers, iOS and Android developers and general development enthusiasts – this podcast is for you!
The Starling Developer Podcast has been created to give you insider access into what goes on behind the curtain at a leading challenger bank, from the technical challenges of cloud-run banking through to iPhone and Android development. Starling’s engineering team will also be discussing subjects like our cloud-based infrastructure and the connections we’ll be making with other fintech frontrunners in the future.
Welcome!
Fellow software developers, iOS and Android developers and general development enthusiasts – this podcast is for you!
The Starling Developer Podcast has been created to give you insider access into what goes on behind the curtain at a leading challenger bank, from the technical challenges of cloud-run banking through to iPhone and Android development. Starling’s engineering team will also be discussing subjects like our cloud-based infrastructure and the connections we’ll be making with other fintech frontrunners in the future.
Welcome!
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
25 minutes
English
United Kingdom
27 episodes
since Aug. 23, 2017
episodic
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The software engineering industry is increasingly acknowldging the importance of ethics in technology. How does this apply to Starling Bank? We look at technology ethics from a Starling perspective by discussing managing customer data, AI and machine learning, and treating vulnerable customers fair…
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Up till now Starling has deployed its back-end server code as a single entity, even though it is split into multiple different services. As we grow this has become less and less tenable. Why have we been deploying like this so far and how are we changing our deployment process as we expand?
Host J…
With COVID-19 confining many of us to our homes we are taking a look at how Starling Bank is coping with this rather unusual situation. How are we continuing to support our customers and each other during this pandemic?
Host Jason Maude chats virtually with technical lead for the public APIs team …
One of the biggest decisions that you have to make when starting a large software project is which language or languages to write it in. In this episode we discuss what factors you should consider when picking a language and what language decisions Starling has made over the past three and a half y…
Open banking and PSD2 have the potential to revolutionise banking. The ability for customers to be able to seamlessly share their financial data in a secure manner between different financial service providers could provide enormous benefits if implemented well. So how is Starling approaching provi…
Starling generally deploys software to production at least once a day during working hours. How do we ensure that this deployment process is easy for engineers and not disruptive for customers?
Host Jason Maude finds out about Starling deployment strategies from Starling Site Reliability Engineers…
In the very first episode of the first series of this podcast we talked about how we ensure that the software architecture that we use at Starling ensures reliability as far as possible. Since then Starling has scaled up from hundreds of customers to over half a million. In this episode we will loo…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all large software systems will be increasingly made up of legacy code. But is this actually the case? In this episode we explore the concepts of legacy code, adaptable architecture, and agile tech companies, and explain how Starling is aiming to avoid th…
In this episode we discuss computerised decision making, from automation of human processes, to machine learning and AI. When do we let machines make decisions on their own and when do we provide human guidance?
Host Jason Maude discusses this with Head of Fraud Catherine Walpole, Head of Data Sci…
In this episode we discuss a variety of different topics that we have received requests to talk about on the podcast including the problems with updating the Starling app to handle multiple currencies and how we build and test the UX of new features.
With Starling engineers Josh Cooke, Lucas Johns…
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