Junior Backend Engineer London (Hybrid)

Sling; City of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech startup in London is seeking a junior backend engineer to join a collaborative team. In this role, you will shape the product and infrastructure while working with various technologies. Ideal candidates should be eager to learn, proactive problem solvers, and effective communicators. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, and a supportive work environment with growth opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Free lunch in Shoreditch office

Growth opportunities and team events

Qualifications

• Eager to learn and grow as an engineer.
• Drive to build for billions of users.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product and infrastructure of Sling.
• Contribute to simple, scalable solutions.
• Be a key part of defining the product and culture.

Skills

Eagerness to learn

Proactive problem-solving

Good communication

Comfortable with ambiguity

Ownership of projects

Tools

Go

Postgres

GraphQL

AWS

Protobuf

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.