Junior Backend Engineer (Go) — Ship Real-Time Updates

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic hybrid working environment

25 days holiday allowance

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in London is seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to contribute to the platform powering our 100% electric parcel delivery network. You’ll join the CX Squad, collaborating with engineers, product managers and designers to ship features that improve real‑world delivery experiences.

You’ll write clean Go code, participate in code reviews, and learn quickly on a modern, cloud‑based stack using AWS, Postgres and distributed systems best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or STEM field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proficiency in writing clean, performant, and testable code in a typed language (Go).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.
• Highly motivated and hungry to learn; you pick up new technologies quickly and enjoy getting better at your craft.
• A bias toward shipping: you'd rather get something working and improve it than spend weeks on perfection.
• You care about user experience and customer delight, and you want the things you build to feel genuinely good to use.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features for recipient‑facing products, like the live tracking page and real‑time delivery updates.
• Develop integrations to enable senders to work with the company with reliable day‑to‑day operations.
• Take tasks from idea to production: writing code and tests, and monitoring what you've shipped.
• Participate in code reviews as author and reviewer, identifying improvements within the squad's scope.
• Work closely with Product and UX to use signals to guide decisions, measure impact, and share learnings.

Skills

Go

Team collaboration

Learning quickly

Shipping bias

User experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or STEM

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in London is seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to contribute to the platform powering our 100% electric parcel delivery network. You’ll join the CX Squad, collaborating with engineers, product managers and designers to ship features that improve real‑world delivery experiences.

You’ll write clean Go code, participate in code reviews, and learn quickly on a modern, cloud‑based stack using AWS, Postgres and distributed systems best practices.