Backend Software Engineer

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!)

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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

The HOW

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

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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

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