Founding Engineer, Terraspect

£80-110k

+ Stock Options

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Java

Ruby

Kotlin

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Mid, Senior and Expert level

London

2-5 days a week in office (Highbury and Islington, London )

Financial infrastructure powering global climate mitigation

Posted today

Financial infrastructure powering global climate mitigation

1-20 employees

FintechB2BSaaSEnvironmental

Posted today

£80-110k

+ Stock Options

JavaScript

Python

Scala

Java

Ruby

Kotlin

Typeform

Mid, Senior and Expert level

London

2-5 days a week in office (Highbury and Islington, London )

1-20 employees

FintechB2BSaaSEnvironmental

Company mission

To move trillions in climate finance to communities delivering the biggest climate impact.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

Desirable

Climate-Tech experience
Payments experience

What the job involves

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

Application process

Screen call with Recruiter
45 min live coding exercise
On-Site Bar-Raiser + Culture round

Salary benchmarks

Our take

The climate finance infrastructure sector sits within the rapidly expanding voluntary carbon market, projected to grow from $479 billion in 2023 to $4.73 trillion by 2030. This growth has, however, exposed a critical gap: Indigenous peoples and local communities manage over 50% of the world's land and hold 24% of tropical forest carbon, yet less than 1% of climate development aid directly reaches them.

Terraspect addresses this challenge by providing transparent payment distribution systems for nature-based carbon projects. The company's platform tackles community compensation, which is not only a social imperative but a business necessity, as community engagement directly impacts carbon projects.

While traditional financial providers serve this space, few focus specifically on remote community-based carbon payments across the Global South. As regulatory bodies introduce stricter community compensation disclosure requirements, Terraspect is poised to become essential infrastructure for scaling high-quality, nature-based carbon projects.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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Company benefits

Deliveroo allowance for lunch and evenings
Team off-sites in nature (our last trip was in the Peruvian Amazon)
Budget to build your own work station
Pension
Weekly sports and regular social events
Wellness budget
Pet friendly!
Health insurance, cycle to work scheme

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Raj Pattni

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Before founding Terraspect, Raj was the US Head of Product for PrimaryBid, a Consultant at Project Concern and Booz & Company and was an Investment Analyst at Macquarie Group.

Wilhelm Zhao

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Before founding Terraspect, he was a Product Owner at Revolut, Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs and a Data Analyst for the Bank of England.

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