Backend Software Engineer

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Job Title

Engineer

Department

Tech Engineering

Location:

Solihull

Line Manager

Engineering Manager

ROLE PROFILE

The WHY

We're looking for a backend software engineer to join our platform engineering team, working in a squad with around 4-8 other engineers, a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Business Analyst and Engineering Manager to support.

Our platform engineering team is made of 4 squads, each working in a different domain area: Customer, Product, Operations and Logistics, and each squad has services and integrations they own. Each squad is 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.

We have a wonderful tech stack, and appreciate that not everyone will have this - we can offer training for those that have strictly typed programming skills and looking to learn Go

The platform engineering team is part of a Tech function of around 150 people, made up of Product Engineering, Data Engineering, Operations, Platform Engineering and Delivery, working on a mix of Gymshark internal products and customer facing products.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITY

The WHAT

Key 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
• 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!)
  
  

The HOW

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Essential Skills

• 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