Due to an internal promotion we’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team. You will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand using industry best tools (Golang, Event‑Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions for business expansion.
Responsibilities
- 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 such as Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB.
- Focusing on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code, following tech standards.
- Following an Agile development approach.
- Maintaining existing services, ensuring high standards of observability and proactive monitoring, and responding to incidents (especially during peak sale periods).
Essential Qualifications
- 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 of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience designing, setting up databases and understanding relational and non‑relational approaches.
- Understanding of Event‑Driven Architecture concepts.
- Experience understanding branching strategies.
Location
Hybrid role – requires attendance at least three days a week at GSIQ, Solihull, UK.
Closing Date
19th February 2026
Equal Opportunity Statement
Gymshark is an equal opportunities employer. We strive to be inclusive in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We are committed to finding reasonable adjustments for candidates with specific needs or a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally.
Benefits
- Performance‑based bonus opportunity
- Funded healthcare benefit
- 25 days holiday, plus an extra day for your birthday and 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‑Specific Benefits (IQ)
- Gym membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
- On‑site lunch provision & coffee bars
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