Senior Data Engineer (Remote within the UK)

As a Senior Data Engineer at Chip , you'll help bring our data platform to the next level and empower Chip to be a truly data-driven business. You'll co-own the architecture of our data platform alongside our Analytics Engineer — not just implementing designs, but making the calls on how ingestion, modelling, and the semantic layer should actually work. You'll also provide technical leadership across the wider data engineering team as we grow.

What you can expect to be doing

Architecture & Pipeline Design

Design, build, and run scalable, secure data pipelines across multiple sources — with an eye on compute sizing and query performance

Co-own architecture decisions across ingestion, modelling, and the presentation layer — defining how the platform should work, not just building to spec

Design and evolve our medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) as the platform matures

Engineering Standards

Define more detailed engineering standards — naming conventions, partitioning, testing strategy, contract templates

Apply Databricks best practices and Infrastructure as Code across the platform

Data Governance

Own governance patterns in Unity Catalog — permissions, access models, and how we handle sensitive data

Set technical governance standards the rest of the team builds against

Enablement & Self-Service

Enable downstream consumers with self-service patterns, so the data team isn't the bottleneck for every request

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

Provide technical leadership across the data engineering team — mentoring other engineers, reviewing code, and raising the engineering bar

What we’re looking for

Data engineering: You've built and scaled complex data products in a growing environment — you've seen platforms mature past their early ad hoc stage and know what that evolution actually takes.

Databricks expertise: Deep, hands-on knowledge of the Databricks platform end to end — workspace and compute configuration, governance, orchestration, user management, engineering best practices.

Data modelling: You're comfortable designing schemas and data models, including medallion architecture and Kimball/Star Schema concepts (Fact and Dimension tables), from the ground up.

Git: You're fluent in Git workflows — branching, troubleshooting, code reviews.

Python/PySpark/SQL: You write clean, efficient code across all three, and you understand how it performs at scale.

Database management: Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., Redshift, Postgres, MongoDB), with a solid grounding in database fundamentals — indexing, performance, design trade-offs.

Terraform: You have experience in managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Mentoring: You've supported and grown less experienced engineers before, and enjoy doing it.

Architecture ownership: You design systems, not just implement them — you can reason through trade-offs and defend a decision.

Data governance: You understand PII handling and governance patterns, and build them into your designs by default.

Nice to have

Previous experience in fintech

Experience re-architecting a data platform from the ground up

Experience building and training AI/ML models

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional (or equivalent)

Proficiency in building streaming data processing systems

Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS, GCP)

What we’re really looking for: ✍️

We’re looking for someone who’s genuinely excited about Chip and energised by the opportunity to help build the future of wealth, making saving, investing and pensions simpler and more accessible for everyone.

We work in a regulated space, so the bar is high. But we’ve built a team of smart, thoughtful people who care about doing great work and enjoy doing it together. Technical skills matter, obviously. But they’re not the only thing we hire for.

We want real people. People with interests, perspective and personality. The best teams are made up of individuals who bring different experiences into the room, not just polished CVs and good interview answers.

So alongside the technical side, we’ll be looking for empathy, self-awareness, sound judgement, resilience and a collaborative mindset. People who are good to work with, especially when things get hard.

⏰ Working Hours ⏰

Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Start your weekend early!)

Enjoy a structured yet balanced workweek, with an early Friday finish to kickstart your weekend!

PERKS 🎁

£70,000 - £80,000 per annum

Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus.

Workplace pension scheme - We invest in your future with a workplace pension scheme , contributing 5% on earnings up to £50,000 . Plan ahead with confidence while you grow your career! 🚀

Private medical insurance (medical history disregarded)

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Free Chip X subscription for UK-based employees

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity

Flexible working arrangements

28 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus the days between Christmas and New Year ✈️

Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences to help you advance your career.

£30 per month 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: 📖

Video screen with someone from our Talent team

Video interview with the hiring manager

Final interview with VP of Engineering

We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know at and we'll be happy to accommodate.

About Chip

Chip ’s mission is to make your life wealthy

We're building the wealth super app of the future. An app to build your long-term wealth across savings, investments and pensions.

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

The Sunday Times listed Chip as the 6th fastest growing tech company in Britain… and we're not slowing down. Chip serves over 400,000 active customers and looks after over £6billion in assets. These customers trust us to build the most amazing product we can, so working at Chip comes with real purpose.

Chip is being built by a fast-growing team of designers, developers, customer service professionals, marketers, banking experts, and entrepreneurs. Our funding story though is a little different. Chip is one of the most crowd-funded businesses in Europe, having raised over £50m from 29,000 investors, over 9 years. Crowdfunding is in our DNA and only Brewdog has more investors than Chip .

Our vision

To be the most personal digital wealth manager in the UK

Who we are

Chip has a creative and diverse team of 180, 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 & 2025 British Bank Awards.