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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.
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!)
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 APIs
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 Lambda, 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
BE HUMAN: Accessible, inclusive & humble
GIVE A SHIT: Conscious, caring & proactive
DO THE RIGHT THING: Honest, trustworthy & genuine
FIND THE GYMSHARK WAY: Ambitious, agile & disruptive
PUT FAMILY FIRST
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