Senior Backend Engineer, Go

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. Join Chip’s Infrastructure team as a Go backend engineer .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeUnited KingdomSenior💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and running production Go microservices, with a strong focus on cloud environments like AWS. Capable of mentoring engineers and ensuring high standards in code quality, testing, and documentation.

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Go Microservices DevelopmentAWS Cloud ExperienceRelational Database ManagementEvent-Driven ArchitectureProduction Ownership and Observability

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Hard Skills

Go ProgrammingConcurrency and Memory BehaviourAPI DesignData ModellingQuery OptimisationMicroservices ArchitectureKubernetesLambdaDatadogGrafana

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationEmpathySelf-AwarenessSound Judgement

Tools & Technologies

TerraformSQSSNSEventBridgeOpenTelemetry

Industry Keywords

Fintech ExperienceRegulated Environment Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesPHPPostgresTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Join Chip’s Infrastructure team as a Go backend engineer
Work across the Resilience and AppSec teams to keep the platform reliable and secure as it scales
Own the design of new Go microservices on AWS from first draft through production
Make technical decisions regarding engineering trade-offs
Help other engineers grow through code review, pairing and mentoring
Collaborate with security, risk and product teams to build reliability and security in from the start
Present regularly at showcases, including technical deep-dives and company-wide product delivery updates
Evaluate impact and success metrics
Support setting Go standards for the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, including Postgres, query optimisation and data modelling at scale
Strong experience working with cloud providers, preferably AWS
Strong experience with event-driven architecture and async messaging using SQS, SNS and EventBridge
Experience building and running microservices in the cloud, such as Kubernetes, Lambda or ECS
Production ownership experience including observability with Datadog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry, alerting, incident response and post-incident improvement
Clear view on release strategy and testing in CI
Experience working closely with stakeholders to shape what gets built
Experience mentoring engineers and raising team standards, including code quality, testing, documentation and linting
Experience using AI tools in day-to-day workflow with critical evaluation of their output
Nice to have: Infrastructure as code with Terraform
Nice to have: PHP experience
Nice to have: experience designing for data correctness, such as append-only ledgers, idempotency and event sourcing
Nice to have: fintech or regulated-environment experience
Empathy, self-awareness, sound judgement, resilience and a collaborative mindset
Ability to work the stated Monday–Thursday 9:00 AM–6:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM–4:00 PM schedule

Benefits

Comp & perks

Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus
Workplace pension scheme, contributing 5% on earnings up to £50,000
Private medical insurance with medical history disregarded
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
28 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus the days between Christmas and New Year
Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences
£30 per month Chip Fitness Benefit
Company laptop
Opportunity to have a huge impact on the product while fast-tracking knowledge, responsibility and skills
Hybrid working benefit listed as working in the office 3 times a week
Working away policy: work from anywhere outside the UK for up to 90 days
Private healthcare with Bupa/Vitality, with medical history disregarded