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# Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** Gymshark.
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Unit Testing, Databases, Information Engineering, Amazon DynamoDB, Event-Driven Programming, Google Cloud, Git, Servicebus, Event Driven Architecture, Git Flow, Production Code, Performance Monitor, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Serverless Computing, Golang
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-gymshark-10027566

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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


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