Backend Engineer: Golang, Event-Driven AWS Serverless

Gymshark; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fitness apparel company is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join their platform engineering team in Solihull. You will be responsible for building scalable solutions using Golang and AWS Serverless technologies, implementing event-driven architecture, and maintaining high-quality code. This hybrid role requires attendance at the office at least three days a week. Candidates should have a strong background in software engineering, agile environments, and API development, along with cloud platform experience who are keen to join a dynamic team.

Benefits

Performance-based Bonus opportunity

Funded Healthcare benefit

25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays

Contributory Employer pension scheme

Flexible benefits programme including salary sacrifice EV scheme

Gymshark Employee Discount

Access to High Street cashback and discounts

Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support

Enhanced Family Leave package

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience building or maintaining scalable APIs.

Responsibilities

• Working on features and bugs to deliver high-quality work.
• Using Golang to build and maintain APIs, services, and integrations.
• Implementing event-driven solutions to support business processes.

Skills

Experience in Golang or another strict typed language

Agile environment experience

Building or maintaining scalable APIs

Experience using cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)

Experience using Git

Implementing quality and testing best practices

Tools

AWS Serverless technologies

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

A leading fitness apparel company is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join their platform engineering team in Solihull. You will be responsible for building scalable solutions using Golang and AWS Serverless technologies, implementing event-driven architecture, and maintaining high-quality code. This hybrid role requires attendance at the office at least three days a week. Candidates should have a strong background in software engineering, agile environments, and API development, along with cloud platform experience who are keen to join a dynamic team.