Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Remote within the UK
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- Target Role:Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Remote within the UK
- Employer:Chip
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (United Kingdom)
- Compensation:GBP 70,000 - 80,000 / annual
- Experience:2+ Years
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- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
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 (Terrafo
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
Perks & Benefits
- Official mentor support
- verified hiring timeline
- and career progression.
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