Senior Backend Engineer – Fintech Compliance & Scale

Chip Financial Ltd; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic financial technology firm in the City of London is seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to design and build robust systems for compliance. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker, alongside programming knowledge in PHP or GO. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams to enhance regulatory compliance and offers competitive compensation with top-tier benefits.

Benefits

£75,000 - £80,000 per annum

Discretionary performance-related bi-annual bonus

Workplace pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

28 days holidays plus bank holidays

Annual training budget

Company laptop

Qualifications

• Experience working with cloud-based platforms (preferably AWS).
• Self-driven, able to work independently or in a small team.
• Experience working with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product to improve compliance posture.
• Build tools for user authentication and integration with third-party providers.
• Improve user onboarding while maintaining compliance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

PHP

GO

SAST tools

DAST tools

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Event-Driven architecture

agile environments

data governance

Job description

A dynamic financial technology firm in the City of London is seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to design and build robust systems for compliance. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker, alongside programming knowledge in PHP or GO. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams to enhance regulatory compliance and offers competitive compensation with top-tier benefits.