Legal Counsel - Engine by Starling

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.

This role is for the Engine Legal Team and will report into the Senior Legal Counsel, Engine. The Engine Legal Team covers all legal aspects needed for a high growth company within a successful bank to succeed.

You will have significant exposure to senior stakeholders across Engine. This role will have a strong focus on commercial contracts and related matters.

Responsibilities:

• Drafting, negotiating and advising on client facing commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, framework agreements, SaaS agreements, other software licences).
• Drafting, negotiating and advising on a full range of third party supplier and intragroup commercial agreements (e.g. marketing, IT, technology, outsourcing) to support the development of Engine.
• Helping to advise on data protection matters in terms of supplier arrangements, client agreements and intragroup data sharing.
• Advising on any issues and matters that may arise to successfully run a banking SaaS company.
• Supporting Senior Legal Counsel (and General Counsel) on international expansion aspects of Engine.
• Managing multiple projects (often to tight deadlines) and supporting colleagues to ensure business and enterprise-wide initiatives are executed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Updating and maintaining Engine’s legal precedent documents.
• Instructing and working with external counsel where necessary on specialist and international matters.

Requirements:

• You will be a UK qualified lawyer with around 3-5 years PQE, with banking SaaS and/or financial services regulatory (e.g. material outsourcing rules), and commercial contracts experience.
• Strong real life experience in drafting, advising and negotiating a range of different commercial contracts in a technology and financial services context (ideally both on a sell and buy side).
• Good real life experience in advising on data protection issues.
• You will need to have excellent technical knowledge, a solid understanding of contract law and principles and at the same time be commercially focused.
• You will be capable of working in a fast-paced environment, and be keen to grow and develop within the organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Benefits:

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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