Founding Engineer (Backend)

Location: London, UK

Type: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive salary (top quartile) + equity

ABout us

Do you want to work on the biggest problem of our lifetimes while increasing financial access to those on the frontline of climate change?

We’re assembling a world-class team to tackle overlooked, critical problems with urgency and impact. If you’re looking for meaningful work, this is your chance to apply your skills to solutions that matter.

You will be part of creating a culture of high ownership (literally and figuratively), and a team where everyone engages with customers—no PM silos, just true product ownership.

You’ll be responsible for

  • Contributing to serving millions of underrepresented individuals globally, with a focus on addressing climate change.
  • Developing and maintaining a 99.99% uptime high-performance core infrastructure/banking system.
  • Managing integrations with various payments and service providers to streamline clients’ financial processes.
  • Integrate with other measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) solutions.
  • Design elegant systems that optimise for speed today, but are flexible enough to scale over time.
  • Build an early engineering-first culture that values scientific rigour, pragmatism, learning and teamwork.

We’re looking for someone who

  • 3+ years experience in backend software development.
  • Proficient in JVM-based languages for server-side development.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
  • Experience with advanced Postgres features like GIST indexes, partitioning and replication.
  • Experience with relational databases.
  • Experience in a fast growing start-up or FinTech environment.
  • Wants to work closely with customers to figure out how to delight them.
  • Wants to work on hard, unsolved, and ambitious problems.
  • Gets stuff done.
  • Understands when to prioritise for speed compared to scale-proof solutions.
  • Enjoy nature ⛰️🌊 - we must stay close to communities and projects; most recently we were in the tropical rainforest with cowboys in Panama, in the rice farms with smallholders in Punjab, with coffee farmers in Peru.

OUR INVESTORS

Terraspect is backed by leading climate VCs and marquee angels who built some of the world’s most iconic companies: Uber, Google, Revolut, Watershed, and the largest remittance platforms on the planet.

They’ve seen the toughest problems—and they’re betting on us to build the rails for trillions in climate finance.

If this resonates with you, join us and be part of the story.

  • Just write a couple of sentences about why you think this is interesting and your CV to team@terraspect.earth