Senior Software Engineer

Overview

In this Senior Backend Engineer role, you will design and deliver scalable backend solutions that underpin Gymshark’s global growth. You’ll work within a cross-functional Tech team to build customer-facing and internal services using Golang and AWS serverless tech. You will drive high-quality delivery, maintain observability, and mentor peers while navigating peak sale periods. This role offers the chance to shape scalable architectures in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on growth and impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Performance-based Bonus opportunity
• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, birthday & bank holidays
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme
• Gymshark Employee Discount

Responsibilities

• Lead technical implementations to ensure timely, high-quality delivery
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and integrations using Golang
• Implement event-driven solutions to support critical business processes
• Create, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Build scalable software leveraging AWS Serverless services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB)
• Write testable, maintainable code following engineering standards
• Operate in an Agile environment, maintain observability, and respond to incidents
• Mentor and coach other engineers and elevate engineering standards

Key requirements

• Production Golang experience or in a strictly typed language
• Experience with cloud-based serverless services (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, or Azure Functions)
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs
• Understanding of Event Driven Architecture
• Git usage and branching strategy knowledge
• Experience applying quality and testing practices (unit testing, contract testing)
• Commercial awareness and creative problem-solving with cost/value mindset

• commercial awareness
• creative problem solving
• ability to think laterally
• Golang
• AWS Serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB)
• Event Driven Architecture

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