Online musical instrument retailer with own-brand gear and EU fulfilment
Gear4music runs a pan-European instrument e-commerce operation on a self-built PHP and MySQL core with React and Ext JS front ends, containerised on GCP with Kubernetes and Terraform. Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch and Redis point to an in-house engineering team owning search, messaging and order flow. Accelerating hiring spans every function evenly, while job posts flag influencer marketing, a new HR system and multi-site warehouse safety.
Gear4music is a York-headquartered online retailer of musical instruments, studio and live sound equipment, lighting and music software, founded in 2003 and publicly listed. It sells third-party brands alongside its own exclusive product lines to musicians ranging from beginners to professionals. The company operates localised websites across several European markets and runs distribution centres in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Spain. It also offers second-hand and trade-in platforms. Headcount sits in the 201–500 range.
Gear4music builds on PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, React and Ext JS, hosted on GCP with Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform, plus Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Cloudflare, Prometheus and Grafana.
Gear4music is headquartered in York, North Yorkshire, UK, with distribution centres in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Spain.
Yes, hiring is accelerating, with openings spread across engineering, marketing, sales, support, logistics, operations and HR, weighted toward junior and mid-level roles.
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