# 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 wit

- **Id**: 4129545
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chip-senior-backend-engineer-go-remote-within-the-uk>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T16:28:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:07:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7797
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Investing Apps & Robo-Advisors

## Company

- **Id**: 172238
- **Name**: Chip
- **Domain**: getchip.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chip-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Teamtailor

## Salary

- **Min**: 70000
- **Max**: 80000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 106271

## Technologies

- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EventBridge** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:07:07Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T04:56:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 106271
- **Is top pay**: no

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