Backend Software Engineer

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

Backend Software Engineer

We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad where you will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working on features and bugs to help your team deliver high-quality work on time
• Using Golang to build and maintain APIs, services and integrations
• Implement event driven solutions to support critical business processes
• Creating, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines
• Building scalable and valuable software leveraging AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge , SQS, DynamoDB
• Focus on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code, following Tech standards
• Following an Agile development approach
• Maintaining existing services, ensuring a high standard of observability and proactive monitoring, in addition to responding to incidents. (Especially during peak sale periods which is critical to business success!)

What You’ll Need

Essential Criteria

• Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language in a commercial engineering environment
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience building or maintaining scalable API's
• Experience using cloud based platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Experience using Git
• Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing

Preferred Skills

• Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lamba, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions)
• Must a demonstrable knowledge building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, setting up databases as well as have an understanding of relational and non-relational approaches
• An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts
• Experience understanding branching strategies

Location

Please note this is a hybrid role and requires the successful candidate to attend at least 3 days a week in GSIQ, Solihull, UK.

Closing Date

19th December

The Perks

• 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, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.