Senior Software Engineer at Gymshark

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. 

This is an amazing time to be part of the business, the excitement and anticipation is everywhere! 

We're looking for a number of Senior Software Engineers to join our team on this amazing journey. We want true Senior Engineers, talented individuals that really understand the code they are creating and know the best way to deploy that, keeping a cycle of continuous deployment. Not only this, we're looking for true Seniors that are passionate about mentoring and leading team members in a successful onboarding journey into the business as well as really evaluating and guiding team processes and change management. 

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 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 

WHAT YOU COULD ALSO HAVE:

• Experience doing performance testing and ensuring your services can scale effectively to meet forecasted demand 
• Experience implementing security best practices within the services you produce 
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile practises
• Great communication skills to easily convey complex problems to different stakeholders  
• Be a collaborative team player who is comfortable working in a high pressure, fast paced environment where identifying issues & implementing solutions 
• Understands the importance of utilising Tech Debt & can articulate the value in addressing it

Please note: This is a hybrid role and would require the successful candidate to attend at least 3 days a week in GSHQ, Solihull, UK.

CLOSING DATE: 24th September 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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