Associate Backend Engineer (Remote within the UK)

at  Chip

We are looking for talented and dedicated Associate Backend Engineer to help us build out a world-beating feature set. Joining our core domain you’ll be responsible for providing our customers with a range of competitive saving accounts and developing new features and services to help us continue to deliver a great product to our customers that helps our company and their money grow.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Programming language experience in PHP with an interest to learn GO
• Experience with a PHP framework such as Laravel or Symfony
• Some knowledge of design patterns (bus, repository, decorator, etc)
• An understanding of mutable vs immutable databases
• Experience with manipulating data structures and performing performance audits of codebase and database.
• Development locally with Containers (Docker) through to production.
• Strong understanding of branching strategies and where best to use them.
• An understanding of Microservice architecture and how to develop microservices / working on the development of microservices deployed across AWS estate.
  What we’re really looking for: ️
  Someone with a genuine interest in Chip and is excited about being part of a fast-growing company and our mission to build the investment super app of the future.
  Although we’re in the financial space, and under the scrutiny that comes with it, the current engineering team works well together, and even sometimes with a smile. We’re sure you’ve got the technical skills, otherwise, you would have stopped reading by now, so let us be clear on what will make us want to work with you.
  We want a real person, with interests outside of work, to join our team. You could be a dancer, a gamer, a musician, a parent, a hockey fan, or even that one person that still writes Twilight fan-fiction. Doesn’t matter to us.
  At the interview stages, we will be looking for empathy, eq, fun stories, and the ability to smile even when things are tough.

WHO WE ARE

Chip has a creative and diverse team of 160, 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 British Bank Awards.

You will be working with a team to deliver new API capabilities that provide features for Chips customers intended to grow our user base and retain them in the long run. This will be achieved by working on the development of new microservices that will be deployed across our AWS estate. You will regularly be involved in show & tell sessions with the goal of helping enable not just the engineers but the whole company in understanding what it is to be an engineer at Chip.