Backend Software Engineer in Solihull

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad focused on key business priorities. You will help build a successful brand and utilise 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.
• 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.
• Focusing 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, and responding to incidents, especially during peak sale periods.

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 APIs.
• 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 Lambda, Google Cloud Run, or Azure Functions).
• Demonstrable knowledge building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and setting up databases, with an understanding of relational and non-relational approaches.
• An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts.
• 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.

Belonging at Gymshark: Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to inclusivity in all aspects of employment. We strive to find reasonable adjustments for candidates with specific needs or disabilities during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.

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.
• Office location specific benefits include Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC), onsite lunch provision & coffee bars, EV charge points available.

Note: The bonus program and benefits have certain eligibility requirements. Gymshark reserves the right to amend these programs in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.