Remote Go Backend Engineer for Scalable Microservices on AWS

Chip; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 70.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Discretionary Bonus

Workplace pension

Private medical insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work

Season ticket loan

ChipX subscription

Fully remote

28 days holiday + BH

Annual training budget

Chip Fitness benefit

Company laptop

Huge impact in fintech startup

Descripción de la vacante

Chip UK is hiring a Go backend engineer to own the design of new Go microservices on AWS from draft to production. You’ll mentor peers, review code, and collaborate with security, risk and product teams to bake reliability and security in from the start.

You’ll work with the Resilience and AppSec teams to ensure scalable, observable systems while contributing to regular showcases and technical deep-dives for colleagues across the company.

Formación

• 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 (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

Responsabilidades

• Own the design of new Go microservices on AWS from draft to production.
• Mentor and review code to raise team standards.
• Collaborate with security, risk and product teams to bake reliability and security in.
• Present at showcases and technical deep-dives for engineers and wider company.
• Help scale the platform and improve reliability and security.

Conocimientos

Go

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

AI tools

Herramientas

Terraform

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Descripción del empleo

Chip UK is hiring a Go backend engineer to own the design of new Go microservices on AWS from draft to production. You’ll mentor peers, review code, and collaborate with security, risk and product teams to bake reliability and security in from the start.

You’ll work with the Resilience and AppSec teams to ensure scalable, observable systems while contributing to regular showcases and technical deep-dives for colleagues across the company.