Software Engineer

**OVERVIEW:
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We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build the technology that support Gymshark's global growth. Working with industry best tools including Golang, Event-Driven Architecture, and AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, and DynamoDB, you'll design and deliver scalable solutions that support key business priorities. As part of a Tech function you will work with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, Operations, Platform Engineering and Delivery, playing a key role in building both customer-facing and internal products that drive the business forward.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• 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

**WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:**

• 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

CLOSING DATE: 12th October 2026

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.