Golang Job: Platform Engineer

About Chip

Our mission is to make our customers wealthier.

We’re building the investment super app of the future. An app to build your long-term wealth across real-world assets, investment funds, DeFi & crypto, and savings accounts.

We use technology to break down barriers so users can invest like the ultra-wealthy, giving them one simple place to manage their wealth.

Chip is being built by a fast-growing team of designers, developers, customer service professionals, marketers, banking experts, and entrepreneurs, with the backing of more than 23,000 investors and a huge community of Chip users.

Our Vision

A global borderless digital wealth management platform that enables everyone to build wealth for their future.

Our Purpose

Is to enable the world's adults to build a wealthier tomorrow. We do this by democratising access to investment opportunities across real assets and investment funds, as well as risk-free savings accounts. This changes the world because wealth creates choices and the opportunity to live our best lives.

Our Values

Be ACCOUNTABLE

Everything you do matters, Care about the end result, Challenge the norm, Disagree, yet commit to making it happen once a decision has been made, Do the best job possible

Be BOLD

Share our Ambition and do your bit to achieve it, Innovate: challenge the norm, break the mould and make it happen, Set goals that truly align with our mission, Do your best for our customers

Be COLLABORATIVE

Work cross-functionally - we win as a team, Build strong relationships based on trust, Treat others fairly and respectfully, Hold others to account, Be supportive and inclusive, Have fun together

We're growing fast and we have some very exciting plans. We're looking for a Senior or Platform Engineer to help us make them happen.

Come join the excitement.

What you can expect to be doing:

• Senior/Platform Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs.
• Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance and availability of their services
• Design, write and deliver software that improves the lives of our engineers and the scalability of our platform
• Take ownership of our Kubernetes platform roadmap and all of our application CI/CD infrastructure and default pipelines
• Take part in our on-call rota
• Creating and delivering well-scoped tickets to provision and configure infrastructure, pipeline and platform requirements
• Interested in the root cause of incidents and outages and improving our time between incidents and MTTR
• Comfortable in automating processes and constantly finding new areas to automate or make more efficient
• Maintenance and patching of our AWS Estate
• Tracking incidents, occurrences and MTTR
• Deployment frequency and failure rate tracking
• Dashboards and management information
  

What we’re really looking for:

• Scripting experience: Bash, Python, GoLang
• Infrastructure Experience: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
• Cloud Service Providers: AWS (Azure or GCP is fine too)
• Container / Container Orchestration experience: Docker (e.g. ECS, EKS, Rancher, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience deploying containers into highly automated AWS environments
• Experience with DNS management (Route53, especially with split horizon)
• Experience defining and deploying secure IAM access controls across hub-and-spoke accounts, with a strong understanding of federated protocols
• Security awareness (access controls, deep packet inspection, security groups, network ACLs)
• Understanding of Microservice Architecture / Mesh technologies and how to deploy/manage them
  

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 platform 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.

PERKS

• Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months
• Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)
• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity
• Flexible working arrangements
• Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ️
• Working away policy which allows you to work outside the UK for up to 90 days
• Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance
• Chip Fitness benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing
• Company laptop
• Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup

Our Interview Process:

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and home life. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Note to Agencies

Chip does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to any of our live roles on our career page. Chip will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited CVs. Chip explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Chip.