Backend Software Engineer

OVERVIEW:

We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad where you will be focused on key business priorities, helping build a successful brand and utilising industry best tools (Golang, Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies such as; Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB) to build scalable solutions to enable business expansion.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• 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 
• Implement 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 Tech 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!)

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• Must have 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 API's  
• 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 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  
• An understanding of Event Driven Architecture concepts  
• Experience understanding branching strategies 

 CLOSING DATE: 

27th April 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 talent@gymshark.com. 

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.