Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Remote within the UK
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026.
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:
Video screen with someone from our Talent team
Technical interview
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 [email protected] 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.