Senior Go Engineer

OVERVIEW:

Gymshark is currently in its scale up era, right across the business each function is a hive of activity really taking its output to the next level. 

Being part of a Tech function of around 150 people, made up of Engineering, Operation, Platform and Delivery working on a mix of Gymshark internal products and Customer facing products; we have a wonderful team of skills and experienced that have been carefully crafted and curated from both within the walls of Gymshark and also lots of other businesses - we're not perfect as a function but we're pretty awesome; learning and sharing is encouraged and we want you to be part of the journey. 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Confidently using Golang to build event driven solutions to support critical business processes
• Creating, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipeline
• Successfully using security and containerisation as well as actively providing feedback  
• Building scalable and valuable software leveraging AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB 
• Working closely with the other engineering teams to build APIs (REST & GraphQL) to create an engineering guild 
• Focus on creating testable, maintainable and scalable code following Tech standards 
• Working in the Tech team with 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 critical to business success!) 
• As a senior you’ll be expected to own the solution approach and implementation of business features 
• Mentoring and coaching other Engineers in their solution building 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• Must have experience in software engineering and writing production code in Golang 
• 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 

Please note: The office is a place of collaboration and innovation, we feel this role works well as a hybrid opportunity and would require the successful candidate to attend at least 3 days a week in GSHQ, Solihull, UK - come on, be part of the fun! 

CLOSING DATE: 12th November 2024 

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.

🙌 Competitive ‘Win Together, Lose Together’ Bonus
🩺 Choice of Private Medical Insurance or Healthcare Cash Plan, paid for by us!
🏖 25 days holidays + your birthday and all the Bank Holidays which can be substituted and taken whenever you want.
💻 A truly Flexible Working Culture
👥 A collaborative, creative and inspiring working environment
💰 Employer pension contributions up to 7%
🤩 Life Assurance at four times your basic salary
🦈 50% Gymshark Discount
🎁 Gymshark Gift Card for each year of service
🥇 Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
📚 Great Training and Learning Resources
🖥 Choice of hardware and access to the best software
🤒 Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
🧸 Very Generous Family Leave package – we support you extending your family
🍎 Refuel - Healthy fresh food at GSHQ
🏋️‍♂️ Lifting Club (LC) Gym Membership
👉 Free monthly massages
💈 Beauty and Barber facilities
🚘 Free on-site parking

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