Senior Software Engineer

OVERVIEW:

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: 28th September 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.