Senior Software Engineer

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Solihull, West Midlands, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Fashion • Fitness
The Role
Leads technical implementations and develops scalable backend APIs, services, integrations, and event-driven solutions using Golang and AWS serverless technologies. Maintains CI/CD pipelines, databases, testing practices, observability, monitoring, and incident response. Mentors engineers, improves engineering standards, and collaborates across product, data, operations, platform, and delivery teams in an Agile environment.
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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.

BELONGING AT GYMSHARK.

Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email [email protected]

ABOUT US.

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

THE PERKS.

Standard benefits include:

  • 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 (IQ):

  • 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.

Skills Required

  • Experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang or another strongly typed language
  • 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 and setting up databases, with understanding of relational and non-relational approaches
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs
  • Understanding of event-driven architecture concepts
  • Experience using Git and understanding branching strategies
  • Experience implementing quality and testing best practices, including unit testing and contract testing
  • Commercial awareness and creative problem-solving ability, including understanding cost and value drivers
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The Company
HQ: Denver, CO
1,330 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Gymshark is one of the fastest growing and most recognisable fitness apparel and accessories brands, supported by over 5 million highly engaged social media followers and customers in 100’s of countries. Imagine working in a world of rapid change, where open minded, ambitious, curious, creative and resourceful people exist. We're always looking for great people and if you can imagine yourself here, this could be the place for you.

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