Backend Software Engineer

• Leading technical implementations of projects to help your team deliver high-quality work on time
• Using Golang to design, build and maintain APIs, services and integrations
• Implementing 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 Engineering 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!)
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Improve engineering standards and best practices

• Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strict typed language
• Experience using cloud based serverless services (such as AWS Lamba, Google Cloud Run or Azure Functions)
• Must have 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
• Experience designing, building and maintaining scalable APIs
• An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts
• Experience using Git and understand branching strategies
• Experience implementing quality and testing best practices within the services you produce, such as unit testing and contract testing
• Commercial Awareness and a creative problem solver with the ability to think laterally and understand the cost and value drivers within a competitive business environment

• 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

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
• EV charge points available

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up - for themselves - to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride - our growth will be your growth.