# Legal Counsel - Engine by Starling **Company**: Engine by Starling **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://apply.workable.com/j/25C81C1AC2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_55c39ebf-da3 ## Description 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 ## Skills ### Required - commercial contracts - data protection - banking SaaS - financial services regulatory - contract law --- Source: [Apply at apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/j/25C81C1AC2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)