We are looking for a talented and dedicated Backend Engineer to help us build out a world-beating feature set. Joining our engineering team you’ll be responsible for 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 you can expect to be doing: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 &amp; 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.What we’re looking for:<ul><li>Programming language experience in PHP with an interest to learn GO</li><li>Experience with a PHP framework such as Laravel or Symfony</li><li>Some knowledge of design patterns (bus, repository, decorator, etc)</li><li>An understanding of mutable vs immutable databases</li><li>Experience with manipulating data structures and performing performance audits of codebase and database.</li><li>Development locally with Containers (Docker) through to production.</li><li>Strong understanding of branching strategies and where best to use them.</li><li>An understanding of Microservice architecture and how to develop microservices.</li></ul>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 right 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 🎁<ul><li>£50,000 - £60,000 per annum depending on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview Process: 📖<ol><li>Video screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Take home technical test</li><li>Video interview with the Squad Lead and Senior Engineer</li><li>Final interview with HR &amp; Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Chip

Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.As a Senior Developer, you'll be at the core of Android delivery at Chip. You specialise in Android but use your much broader technical experience to help steer the team.You'll be working with one of the fastest-growing fintechs, helping us define how we use mobile to drive our business and help make saving effortless for millions. You'll share your passion and experience with those around you, allowing and encouraging your less experienced teammates to step up to the challenges. At a senior level, your responsibility reaches beyond writing code. Your mobile teammates will naturally look to you for on-the-job coaching and broader career adviceWhat you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Design, build and ship features for our Android application from inception to release.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality product.</li><li>Working across the engineering team to help shape the product roadmap.</li><li>Build reusable tools to enhance our development practices.</li><li>Owning large architectural changes to the codebase.</li><li>Being seen as a point of contact to other areas of the business and can communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>You're a passionate and self-motivated developer.</li><li>You've built an Android application that's on the Google Play Store.</li><li>Strong working knowledge of Kotlin and Android SDKs.</li><li>You are committed to writing high-quality, testable code.</li><li>You love collaborating as an Agile team.</li><li>Solid understanding of the mobile development lifecycle.</li><li>Have experience in mentoring other developers and delegating appropriate tasks</li></ul>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. PERKS 🎁<ul><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview Process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Short take-home test</li><li>Final interview with HR and Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Senior Android Engineer

What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Working within a dedicated team of highly experienced backend, frontend and wider QA teams.</li><li>Continuously liaising and collaborating with developers and other specialists within and outside your team to ensure requirement clarity and a quality-first mindset.</li><li>Execution of manual and automated tests</li><li>Driving quality from start - being involved in the user story definition process and writing test scenarios upfront.</li><li>Bringing a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensuring test effort is taken into consideration.</li><li>Estimate the testing required, reporting status and issues within your team using the system in place.</li><li>Understanding and gaining experience within the Cloud/AWS and opportunities that bring in.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Experience in using defect management tools such as Jira</li><li>Strong Experience in API/back-end testing with any relevant tools such as Postman</li><li>Experience with web app testing</li><li>Experience working in agile environments</li><li>Ability to meet deadlines, and handle and prioritise simultaneous requests.</li><li>Experience in automation (Nice to have)</li><li>Knowledge of any programming skills (Nice to have)</li></ul>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. PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£30,000 - £38,000 per annum depending on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview Process: 📖<ol><li>Video screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Short take-home test</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Final interview with HR and Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Test Analyst

We’re looking for a product-aware Senior Android Engineer to lead the Android Chapter at Chip. As an Android Chapter Lead, you'll be responsible for collaborating within cross-functional agile teams to help us continue to deliver a great app that makes our customers feel good about their money. You'll possess user-centric thinking, and will understand and strive for great UI and UX.You'll understand the need for modular and highly testable code balanced against the need to iterate and move fast in the competitive fin-tech space.As an Android Chapter lead, you’ll also be responsible for leading the technical direction of Android at Chip, in both overall architectural direction for the apps and frameworks, but also in general technical practices and processes. You'll share your passion and experience with the Android team, allowing and encouraging your less experienced teammates to step up to the challenges.What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Leading the technical direction of Android at Chip. Encouraging best practices, and processes, and fostering a positive engineering culture.</li><li>Writing code and shipping features.</li><li>Supporting Product/Delivery in technical requirements planning by providing knowledge of Google platforms, the codebase, and the feasibility of requirements.</li><li>Collaboration with teams that app developers are dependent on - providing requirements that meet the needs of a mobile function, rather than being provided with a service that's not fit for purpose.</li><li>Collaboration in UI/UX process to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and comply with the Apple/Google Human Interface Guidelines.</li><li>Line management of a team of Android engineers within the chapter. Providing opportunities for learning, providing mentoring, encouraging others to mentor, and supporting members to achieve their career goals and personal development.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>You have experience programming in Kotlin for Android platforms</li><li>You understand the need for tested, resilient code balanced against the need to move fast and iterate</li><li>You have proven experience shipping apps in the App/Google Store</li><li>You have a product mindset and an awareness that an app should be designed and built for the people that will use it</li><li>You love collaborating in cross-functional agile teams</li><li>You have experience leading an engineering team</li></ul>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, 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 🎁<ul><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (28 days contracted but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview Process: 📖<ol><li>Video screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Video interview with the Head of Engineering &amp; VP of Product</li><li>Final interview with the Android team</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Android Chapter Lead

As Head of Mobile at Chip you’ll be reporting to the CTO. This is a key leadership role in building the strategy for the design and development of the Chip App on iOS and Android to deliver new customer features that will fuel the business growth.The Head of Mobile leads the iOS, Android, &amp; Mobile QA Chapters. You’ll drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of our mobile solutions to support the business needs. You’ll oversee the development of the customer-facing mobile apps, working closely with product designers, product owners and other engineering teams to deliver a first-class mobile experience for our users. You will assess and implement ongoing process improvements both in our ways of working and in the software itself. You’ll help drive the QA strategy for the apps through automated test suites, exploratory testing, and bug triaging.The Head of Mobile has a strong vision for the Mobile Chapter, promoting the best organisational patterns and practices. You will tackle high-level challenges and balance quality software with speed of delivery. You are responsible for feature deployment, scalability and stability of the business’s core platform, and the overall quality of the mobile application architecture. You will provide clear leadership, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Line manage the iOS, Android &amp; Mobile QA Chapter Leads</li><li>Hire and develop engineers and chapter leads, and grow the teams in line with the business plan</li><li>Be accountable for delivery of new features, to ensure they are designed, planned, and delivered with clarity and on time.</li><li>Assist with early discovery and scoping of major new features, and provide guidance on technical feasibility</li><li>Analyse project requirements and accordingly provide technical and functional recommendations, and delivery timelines</li><li>Own the app release process to get features into customer hands frequently and efficiently</li><li>Work closely with both mobile engineers and product designers to optimise our approach to UI, and empower quick delivery and iteration of intuitive features</li><li>Use your knowledge and experience of app development to help review, improve, and document our information architecture and design systems</li><li>Empower the team to design and deliver modern and intuitive interfaces and leverage UI frameworks on both platforms effectively</li><li>Facilitate close collaboration between mobile engineers and backend engineers to create the API contracts to support new features</li><li>Help identify appropriate use cases for new mobile technologies that deliver genuine customer value</li><li>Ensure that engineering approaches are properly planned and designed to be stable, scalable, and scalable.</li><li>Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.</li><li>Oversee the technical backlog for the mobile codebases, and work with engineers and product owners to prioritise maintenance and upgrades alongside feature work</li><li>Proactively monitor app performance and stability and work with engineers to address any issues</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Experience in leading the development of a high-quality, secure mobile app on Android or iOS.</li><li>Excellent track record of successfully delivering technically complex projects and innovative solutions.</li><li>Have significant experience leading and line managing engineering organisations and understands the value of the team</li><li>Have a track record of attracting, hiring, developing and retaining top engineering talent. You are somebody that people want to work for and with</li><li>Ability to lead technical discussions and guide the team to arrive at the most optimal solution.</li><li>High level of personal maturity, pragmatism, flexibility, and resilience.</li><li>Excellent communication skills and ability to establish and maintain good relationships with people.</li><li>Commercially minded and product focussed</li><li>Strong verbal and visual presentation skills.</li><li>Have spent the formative years of your career as a software developer and retain an innate feel for technology</li></ul>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 in 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 🎁<ul><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Wellness Allowance of £30 per month</li><li>Annual Allowance of £1500 to use on your personal development</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with Product Design Lead &amp; VP of Product</li><li>Video interview with Head of Engineering &amp; Mobile Chapter Lead</li><li>Final interview with CTO</li></ol>Note to AgenciesChip 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.

Head of Mobile

What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Senior/Platform Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs.</li><li>Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance and availability of their services</li><li>Design, write and deliver software that improves the lives of our engineers and the scalability of our platform</li><li>Take ownership of our Kubernetes platform roadmap and all of our application CI/CD infrastructure and default pipelines</li><li>Take part in our on-call rota</li><li>Creating and delivering well-scoped tickets to provision and configure infrastructure, pipeline and platform requirements</li><li>Interested in the root cause of incidents and outages and improving our time between incidents and MTTR</li><li>Comfortable in automating processes and constantly finding new areas to automate or make more efficient</li><li>Maintenance and patching of our AWS Estate</li><li>Tracking incidents, occurrences and MTTR</li><li>Deployment frequency and failure rate tracking</li><li>Dashboards and management information</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Scripting experience: Bash, Python, GoLang</li><li>Infrastructure Experience: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation</li><li>Cloud Service Providers: AWS (Azure or GCP is fine too)</li><li>Container / Container Orchestration experience: Docker (e.g. ECS, EKS, Rancher, Kubernetes, etc)</li><li>Experience deploying containers into highly automated AWS environments</li><li>Experience with DNS management (Route53, especially with split horizon)</li><li>Experience defining and deploying secure IAM access controls across hub-and-spoke accounts, with a strong understanding of federated protocols</li><li>Security awareness (access controls, deep packet inspection, security groups, network ACLs)</li><li>Understanding of Microservice Architecture / Mesh technologies and how to deploy/manage them</li></ul>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 🎁<ul><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Working away policy which allows you to work outside the UK for up to 90 days </li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview Process: 📖<ol><li>Video screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Video interview with some of the team</li><li>Final interview with HR and Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Platform Engineer

The Head of Mobile leads the iOS, Android, &amp; Mobile QA Chapters. You’ll drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of our mobile solutions to support the business needs. You’ll oversee the development of the customer-facing mobile apps, working closely with product designers, product owners and other engineering teams to deliver a first-class mobile experience for our users. You will assess and implement ongoing process improvements both in our ways of working, and in the software itself. You’ll help drive the QA strategy for the apps through automated test suites, exploratory testing, and bug triaging.The Head of Mobile has a strong vision for the Mobile Chapter, promoting the best organisational patterns and practices. You will tackle high-level challenges and balance quality software with speed of delivery. You are responsible for feature deployment, scalability and stability of the business’s core platform, and the overall quality of the mobile application architecture. You will provide clear leadership, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Line manage the iOS, Android &amp; Mobile QA Chapter Leads</li><li>Hire and develop engineers and chapter leads, and grow the teams in line with the business plan</li><li>Be accountable for delivery of new features, to ensure they are designed, planned, and delivered with clarity and on time.</li><li>Assist with early discovery and scoping of major new features, and provide guidance on technical feasibility</li><li>Analyse project requirements and accordingly provide technical and functional recommendations, and delivery timelines</li><li>Own the app release process to get features into customer hands frequently and efficiently</li><li>Work closely with both mobile engineers and product designers to optimise our approach to UI, and empower quick delivery and iteration of intuitive features</li><li>Use your knowledge and experience of app development to help review, improve, and document our information architecture and design systems</li><li>Empower the team to design and deliver modern and intuitive interfaces and leverage UI frameworks on both platforms effectively</li><li>Facilitate close collaboration between mobile engineers and backend engineers to create the API contracts to support new features</li><li>Help identify appropriate use cases for new mobile technologies that deliver genuine customer value</li><li>Ensure that engineering approaches are properly planned and designed to be stable, scalable, and scalable.</li><li>Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.</li><li>Oversee the technical backlog for the mobile codebases, and work with engineers and product owners to prioritise maintenance and upgrades alongside feature work</li><li>Proactively monitor app performance and stability and work with engineers to address any issues</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Experience of leading the development of a high quality, secure mobile app on Android or iOS.</li><li>Excellent track record of successfully delivering technically complex projects and innovative solutions.</li><li>Have significant experience leading and line managing engineering organisations and understands the value of the team</li><li>Have a track record of attracting, hiring, developing and retaining top engineering talent. You are somebody that people want to work for and with</li><li>Ability to lead technical discussions and guide the team to arrive at the most optimal solution.</li><li>High level of personal maturity, pragmatism, flexibility, and resilience.</li><li>Excellent communication skills and ability to establish and maintain good relationships with people.</li><li>Commercially minded and product focussed</li><li>Strong verbal and visual presentation skills.</li><li>Have spent the formative years of your career as a software developer and retain an innate feel for technology</li></ul>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 in 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 ability to smile even when things are tough. PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£85,000 - £90,000 per annum dependant on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK based employees</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Wellness Allowance of £30 per month</li><li>Annual Allowance of £1500 to use on your personal development</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with Product Design Lead &amp; VP of Product</li><li>Video Interview with Head of Engineering &amp; Mobile Chapter Lead</li><li>Final interview with CTO</li></ol>Note to AgenciesChip 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.

We are looking for a very talented and dedicated Senior Backend QA Engineer to help us build out a world-beating feature set. Joining our engineering team, you’ll be responsible for testing new rest-api backend features and microservices both manually and by automation; as required and identified at the planning sessions to help us continue to deliver a great product to our customers which helps our company and their money grow.What you can expect to be doing: <ul><li>Working within a dedicated team of highly experienced backend and frontend developers.  </li><li>Creating Test Automation Feasibility Review, Test Automation Approach, Test Automation Plan, Test Automation Strategy.  </li><li>Continuously liaising and collaborating with developers and other specialists within and outside your team to ensure requirement clarity and quality-first mindset.  </li><li>Driving quality from start - being involved in the user story definition process and writing test scenarios upfront.  </li><li>Bringing a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensuring test effort is taken into consideration.  </li><li>Writing and leading API automation within the squad.  </li><li>Leading performance testing.  </li><li>Estimate the testing required, reporting status and issues within your team using the system in place.  </li><li>Integrate test automation and generate reports from the CI tooling after automated test executions for visibility.  </li><li>Sharing your knowledge of the latest test automation technologies and best practices.  </li><li>Design, build, implement, improve and continually maintain automated testing frameworks.  </li><li>Understanding and gaining experience within the Cloud/AWS and opportunities that bring in.  </li><li>Configuring test environments for manual testing and automation using Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm</li></ul>What we’re looking for*:<ul><li>Solid programming skills in your language of choice (not necessarily ours). The primary language of our quality engineers in services is Javascript/Typescript, that’s just a language, knowledge of any OO language will help you.</li><li>Proven track record of experience writing api automation tests.</li><li>Proven track record of working in service oriented environments.</li><li>Being able to experiment with different test frameworks and automation tools, (open-source preferred) and able to choose the right ones according to different trade-offs</li><li>Strong understanding and experience of using SOLID principles.</li><li>Strong knowledge of mocking test dependencies and inversion of control concepts.</li><li>Strong grasp on SDLC and STLC with a DevOps approach.</li><li>Experience in Continuous Testing.</li><li>Knowledge of Agile practices.</li><li>Knowledge of observability and monitoring</li><li>Knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform or any other Container Management and IAC solutions (Nice to have)</li></ul>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 QA team works well together, and even sometimes with a smile. We’re sure you’ve got the right 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 ability to smile even when things are tough.PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£50,000 - £65,000 per annum dependant on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months </li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (28 days contracted but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Chip Scholarship fund to support your personal development</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Take home technical task</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Final Interview with HR and VP of Product</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 responsibilitiesNote to AgenciesChip 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.

Senior Backend QA Engineer

We are looking for an Android Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers and build the next generation of our mobile applications. As an Android developer, you'll be at the core of Android delivery at Chip. You specialise in Android but use your much broader technical experience to help steer the team.You'll be working with one of the fastest growing fintechs, helping us define how we use mobile to drive our business and help make saving effortless for millions.  You'll share your passion and experience with those around you, allowing and encouraging your less experienced teammates to step up to the challenges. What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Design, build and ship features for our Android application from inception to release.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional team to deliver a high quality product.</li><li>Working across the engineering team to help shape the products roadmap.</li><li>Build reusable tools to enhance our development practices.</li><li>Owning large architectural changes to the codebase. </li><li>Being seen as a point of contact to other areas of the business and can communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>You've built an Android application that's on the Google Play Store.</li><li>You have strong working knowledge of Kotlin and the Android SDKs.</li><li>You want to build great UI using Jetpack Compose. </li><li>You are committed to writing high quality code and writing tests (unit tests, UI tests, etc.).</li><li>You love collaborating as an Agile team.</li><li>You have solid understanding of the mobile development lifecycle.</li><li>You're staying up to date with the latest in Android and want to use new technologies such as Coroutines and Kotlin Multiplatform. </li></ul>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 mobile 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 ability to smile even when things are tough.PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£45,000 - £55,000 per annum dependant on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (28 days contracted but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Chip Scholarship fund to support your personal development</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Short take home test</li><li>Technical interview with the Android Chapter Lead</li><li>Final interview with HR and Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Android Engineer

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Mobile QA Engineer to help us build the investment super app of the future.You’ll be responsible for testing new front-end features and services both manually and by automation; as required and identified at the planning sessions to help us continue to deliver a great product to our customers which helps our company and their money grow.If you want to build the next big finance brand, and know how to make that happen… this role is for you.What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>Working within a dedicated team of highly experienced backend and frontend developers.</li><li>Document execute manual tests against the monolith while we build our microservice.</li><li>Thorough understanding and ability to conduct both exploratory and regression tests on the front and back-end.</li><li>Knowledge of using either swagger UI, postman or other api-testing tool that facilitates testing the api manually.</li><li>Continuously liaising and collaborating with developers and other specialists within and outside your team to ensure requirement clarity and quality-first mindset.</li><li>Identify test scenarios, create test cases and document test results.</li><li>Estimate the testing required, reporting status and issues within your team using the system in place.</li><li>Know when to escalate issues/bugs that are not getting the expected attention.</li><li>Document software faults and liaise with developers until the software is ready for release.</li><li>Perform detailed manual testing of in-house applications using industry-standard techniques.</li><li>Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and support meeting your sprint goals by releasing as scheduled.</li><li>Ability to communicate complex scenarios clearly and concisely.</li><li>Analyse and report on testing results.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Commercial iOS and Android Manual testing.</li><li>Proven track record and sound knowledge of testing APIs.</li><li>Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence.</li><li>Experience with CI tools such as Bitrise and Jenkins.</li><li>Experience working with mock servers, using SSH Tunnelling and Proxy tools.</li><li>Commercial experience of testing microservices.</li><li>Experience using XCUI for iOS &amp; Espresso for Android.</li><li>Experience working in an Agile environment.</li><li>Exposure to running automation tests as part of a CI pipeline.</li><li>Experience of other tools like Appium, Calabash will be a bonus.</li><li>Exposure of using and following BDD concept of test implementation.</li></ul>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 ability to smile even when things are tough. PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£40,000 - £55,000 per annum dependant on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK based employees</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (28 days contracted but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with the hiring manager</li><li>Pair programming session with one of our Mobile QA Engineers</li><li>Final interview with HR and Product Manager</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

Mobile QA Engineer

As Platform Development Manager you’ll be reporting to the CTO, this is a key leadership role in building the strategy for Chip’s approach to its developer experience, platform technology and production observability, and the associated tech stack.The Platform Development Manager leads the Platform Team. You’ll drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of the deployment solutions for both the backend services and the customer mobile Application. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that Chip’s services can be reliably deployed to and run in testing, preproduction and production environments, as quickly, efficiently and reliably as possible.You’ll collaborate with the Heads of Engineering, QA, Mobile and Data in order to deliver high quality features for customers, and implement ongoing process improvements in both software development and in our ways of working. You’ll be responsible for the company’s IT infrastructure, ensuring that all employees have access to the tools and technologies they need.The Platform Development Manager has a strong vision for the platform team, collaborating closely with the CTO to define the roadmap to set and deliver the platform team OKRs promoting the best organisational patterns and practices. You will tackle high-level challenges and balance quality software with speed of delivery. You will provide clear leadership, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.What you can expect to be doing:<ul><li>You will be responsible for shaping the strategy and roadmap for the platform team, and help define business-wide system architectures</li><li>You will be accountable for increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our SaaS spend, reducing the cost per active user as the company scales</li><li>Working alongside a Product Owner, you will manage and set direction for the platform team</li><li>Collaborate with the rest of Engineering Leadership to develop the overall strategy for the architectural and operation excellence approaches.</li><li>Continuing to build, improve and monitor a comprehensive the CI/CD pipeline (we use Gitlab) that deploys to production multiple times a day across dozens of services</li><li>Ensuring that our monitoring and observability stack is best in class, and fits both business, engineering and automation needs</li><li>Building out scalability and stability in everything we do - we’ve moved heavily into autoscaling, and now want to turn this into the best-in-class infrastructure for a scaling business.</li><li>Manage the delivery of on-call from the platform team and support backend engineers who are on-call, building runbooks, playbooks and monitoring to help reduce the frequency and severity of call-outs.</li><li>Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all platform engineers.</li></ul>What we’re really looking for:<ul><li>Strong background working in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS</li><li>You are obsessed with the principles of SRE and DORA metrics, and want to build them into everything the wider engineering team does</li><li>Background in applying Devops principles in teams, and a strong understanding that Devops is an approach, not a job role</li><li>Experience in building and delivering applications in one of PHP, Go, Python, Node</li><li>Strong understanding of containerisation and container orchestration in Kubernetes, ECS or Fargate</li><li>Demonstrable experience of being responsible for and delivering infrastructure and platform strategy, and building a highly performing team</li><li>An understanding of Microservice architecture and how to develop micro services.</li><li>CKA or AWS Certifications would be nice to have, but you can work towards them using our ScholarChip fund in the company</li></ul>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 ability to smile even when things are tough. PERKS 🎁<ul><li>£85,000 - £90,000 per annum dependant on experience</li><li>Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months</li><li>Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)</li><li>Free ChipX subscription for UK based employees</li><li>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity</li><li>Flexible working arrangements</li><li>Unlimited holiday (28 days contracted but policy not to count) ✈️</li><li>Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance</li><li>Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing</li><li>Company laptop</li><li>Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high growth fintech startup 🚀</li></ul>Our Interview process: 📖<ol><li>Video Screen with someone from our Talent team</li><li>Video interview with Platform Staff Engineer &amp; Head of Engineering</li><li>Final interview with CTO</li></ol>Equal OpportunitiesWe 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 AgenciesChip 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.

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