Junior Backend Engineer

Story Terrace Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech startup in London is seeking a junior backend engineer to contribute to product and infrastructure development for a global audience. You'll work in a collaborative environment with growth potential and influence the company's engineering function. Ideal candidates are proactive, eager to learn, and possess strong communication skills. A competitive salary and equity package is offered, along with professional growth opportunities and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Hybrid working flexibility

Professional growth opportunities

Free lunch in the office

Qualifications

• Excited to dive in and learn new technologies quickly.
• A desire to build impactful products for billions of users.
• Able to work collaboratively and support team growth.

Responsibilities

• Help shape product and infrastructure from an early stage.
• Contribute to scalable solutions for a large user base.
• Own problems from exploration to release to customers.

Skills

Eager to learn

Proactive problem-solving

Good communication

Comfortable with ambiguity

Ownership mindset

Job description

We're looking for a junior backend engineer to join our small, experienced, and highly collaborative team.

Please read our blog post about life as an engineer at Sling.

You’ll have an opportunity to help shape our product and our infrastructure from an early stage and contribute to simple, scalable solutions that will one day serve billions of users. We're using a collection of technologies that include Go, Postgres, GraphQL, Protobuf, AWS and the Solana blockchain.

We're looking for someone who is product-oriented and cares about how people will use and interact with the software they're building.

You’ll be a key part of building and defining our product, our infrastructure and our culture for years to come. We're looking for someone who cares about people, craft and quality and who likes to move fast.

You should apply if

• You're eager to learn and grow as an engineer. You may not have experience with everything we use, but you're excited to dive in, pick things up quickly, and contribute.
• You have a drive to build and want to do it for billions of people, from the ground up.
• You're proactive and take ownership. You enjoy solving problems and figuring things out, even when the answer isn’t obvious.
• You want to help build a team, not just be a part of it. You're happy to ask questions, share what you learn, and support those around you.
• You're a good communicator, both verbally and written.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity, both technically and organizationally. You're happy to explore problems without a clear definition or solution.
• You enjoy owning problems from end-to-end, from the early exploration of the problem through to releasing things to customers.
• You like to share your work early and you're happy to put something out there when it's ~70% done.

Why join us?

• High Impact: You’ll shape the foundation of Sling Money’s engineering function and influence the trajectory of a global fintech.
• Big Opportunity: We’re solving a massive, global problem and we’re just getting started.
• Collaborative Team: Work with ambitious, curious, and kind teammates who want to change how the world moves money.
• Growth Potential: As an early engineering hire, there’s huge scope to grow your role as we scale.

Compensation, Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Opportunity to be a core part of a fast-growing fintech startup
• Collaborative and innovative work environment with autonomy
• Free lunch in our breezy Shoreditch office and hybrid working flexibility
• Professional growth opportunities, team offsites, and events

Our commitment to diversity

We want to build a product that's used and loved by billions of people, and that means we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. We will fail otherwise. We are absolutely committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.

Location

We're based in Shoreditch, in London. We come into the office 2-3 days a week on average.