Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Remote within the UK

About the role:

You’ll join Chip’s Infrastructure team as a Go backend engineer, working across our Resilience and AppSec teams to keep our platform reliable and secure as we scale. Go is our standard for new services, and you’ll own the design of new Go microservices on AWS from first draft to production. You’ll make the technical calls on trade-offs, help other engineers grow through code review, pairing and mentoring, and work closely with security, risk and product teams to build reliability and security in from the start. You’ll also present regularly at showcases, from technical deep-dives for other engineers to walking the wider company through what your team has shipped

What we’re looking for:

• Significant commercial experience building and running production Go services

• Deep understanding of Go concurrency, memory behaviour and performance profiling (pprof)

• Track record of designing service boundaries, APIs and data models for distributed systems

• Strong experience with relational databases (we use Postgres), including query optimisation and data modelling at scale

• Strong experience working with cloud providers, preferably AWS (We’re all-in on AWS)

• Strong experience with event-driven architecture and async messaging (SQS/SNS/EventBridge)

• Building and running microservices in the cloud (e.g. Kubernetes, Lambda, ECS)

• Production ownership: observability (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), alerting, incident response and post-incident improvement

• A clear view on release strategy and testing in CI

• Experience working closely with stakeholders to shape what gets built

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising a team’s standards, including code quality, testing, documentation and linting, evaluating impact and success metric. You’ll support setting the Go standards for the team

• Experience using AI tools in your day-to-day workflow, with a critical eye on their output, and helping others use them well

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

• PHP experience

• Experience designing for data correctness, for example append-only ledgers, idempotency, event sourcing

• Fintech or regulated-environment experience

What we’re really looking for: ✍️

We’re looking for someone who’s genuinely excited about Chip and energised by the opportunity to help build the future of wealth, making saving, investing and pensions simpler and more accessible for everyone.

We work in a regulated space, so the bar is high. But we’ve built a team of smart, thoughtful people who care about doing great work and enjoy doing it together. Technical skills matter, obviously. But they’re not the only thing we hire for.

We want real people. People with interests, perspective and personality. The best teams are made up of individuals who bring different experiences into the room, not just polished CVs and good interview answers.

So alongside the technical side, we’ll be looking for empathy, self-awareness, sound judgement, resilience and a collaborative mindset. People who are good to work with, especially when things get hard.

⏰ Working Hours ⏰

• Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

• Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Start your weekend early!)

Enjoy a structured yet balanced workweek, with an early Friday finish to kickstart your weekend!

PERKS 🎁

• £70,000 - £80,000 per annum

• Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus.

• Workplace pension scheme - We invest in your future with a workplace pension scheme, contributing 5% on earnings up to £50,000. Plan ahead with confidence while you grow your career! 🚀

• Private medical insurance (medical history disregarded)

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees

• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity

• Fully remote

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus the days between Christmas and New Year ✈️

• Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences to help you advance your career.

• £30 per month Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing

• Company laptop

• Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀
  

Our Interview Process: 📖

1. Video screen with someone from our Talent team

2. Technical interview

3. Final culture interview

We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know at daniel.bowling@getchip.uk and we'll be happy to accommodate.

About Chip

Chip’s mission is to make your life wealthy

We're building the wealth super app of the future. An app to build your long-term wealth across savings, investments and pensions.

We use technology to break down barriers so users can invest like the ultra-wealthy, giving them one simple place to manage, grow and protect their wealth.

The Sunday Times listed Chip as the 6th fastest growing tech company in Britain… and we're not slowing down. Chip serves over 400,000 active customers and looks after over £6billion in assets. These customers trust us to build the most amazing product we can, so working at Chip comes with real purpose.

Chip is being built by a fast-growing team of designers, developers, customer service professionals, marketers, banking experts, and entrepreneurs. Our funding story though is a little different. Chip is one of the most crowd-funded businesses in Europe, having raised over £50m from 29,000 investors, over 9 years. Crowdfunding is in our DNA and only Brewdog has more investors than Chip.

Our vision

To be the most personal digital wealth manager in the UK

Who we are

Chip has a creative and diverse team of 180, from all different backgrounds and industries. We’re driven and passionate people, but no one takes themselves too seriously.

Don’t just take our word for it. We have a few awards under our belt, including Best Personal Finance App at the 2022, 2024 & 2025 British Bank Awards.

Our Values

Be ACCOUNTABLE

Everything you do matters, Care about the end result, Challenge the norm, Disagree, yet commit to making it happen once a decision has been made, Do the best job possible

Be BOLD

Share our Ambition and do your bit to achieve it, Innovate: challenge the norm, break the mould and make it happen, Set goals that truly align with our mission, Do your best for our customers

Be COLLABORATIVE

Work cross-functionally - we win as a team, Build strong relationships based on trust, Treat others fairly and respectfully, Hold others to account, Be supportive and inclusive, Have fun together

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and home life. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Note to Agencies

Chip does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to any of our live roles on our career page. Chip will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited CVs. Chip explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Chip.