Junior Backend Engineer

Story Terrace Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing fintech startup based in London is seeking a junior backend engineer to join their collaborative team. The ideal candidate is eager to learn, proactive, and enjoys problem-solving. Working with technologies such as Go, Postgres, and AWS, you will contribute to building scalable solutions that serve billions. This role offers a competitive salary, equity, and innovative work environment with hybrid flexibility in Shoreditch.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Free lunch in the office

Professional growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Excited to dive in and pick up new technologies.
• Proactive in solving problems and taking ownership.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the product and infrastructure.
• Contribute to simple, scalable solutions.
• Influence the trajectory of a global fintech.

Skills

Eager to learn

Problem-solving

Good communication

Ownership

Comfortable with ambiguity

Tools

Go

Postgres

GraphQL

Protobuf

AWS

Solana blockchain

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.