Software Engineer
Location: This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK.
Contract Type: 6 month fixed term contract.
The Opportunity
A global company in B2B ecommerce, RS Group’s digital department is responsible for over 60 websites worldwide, reaching millions of users every month. Based in Corby (Northamptonshire), London or remote, we are using cloud technologies and DevOps practices to digitally transform the business.
We’re hiring a senior software engineer to work within the digital solutions area to create and support AWS based APIs that power our B2B EDI solutions.
What You Will Be Doing
Develop microservices:
high scale, fault tolerant, low latency APIs
event driven architectures
Database reliant
Own the entire software life cycle:
Design
Build
Operate
Be agile
Prefer small releases over big bangs
Deploy straight through to production
Frequent, iterative releases
Constantly try to
build upon and improve our tool chain
Improve our understanding of the best way of doing things
Communicate positively and work as a team (we’re humans not tech bros)
The tech:
AWS serverless technologies (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB)
Docker (deployed to Hashicorp Nomad for Java and JavaScript applications)
Kong (API Gateway)
Datadog (logging, monitoring and thresholds)
Vault (secrets management)
Terraform (deploying infrastructure)
Gitlab + Gitlab CI (git repo and continuous integration)
Plus anything else the team finds useful
What You’ll Bring
Can do mindset that positively impacts on the team
Ability to problem solve at the code and platform level
Work with non-technical team members to turn project briefs into actionable programmes of work
Easy to get on with, good communicator
Technical experience needed for the role, minimum of 5 years:
Experience creating and maintaining Java based services
Experience of designing, building and operating HTTP based services
Experience of working with multiple microservices and distributed systems
Experience working with eventual consistency
Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
Experience improving existing services and ways of working
Cloud computing experience
Continuous integration experience (git based, writing CI scripts)
Experience in one dynamic typed language (e.g. JavaScript, PHP)
Mature approach to testing (e.g. unit tests, integration tests, security auditing)
We Are RS
We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.
We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.
Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.
Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-CF1
Contract Type: 6 month fixed term contract.
The Opportunity
A global company in B2B ecommerce, RS Group’s digital department is responsible for over 60 websites worldwide, reaching millions of users every month. Based in Corby (Northamptonshire), London or remote, we are using cloud technologies and DevOps practices to digitally transform the business.
We’re hiring a senior software engineer to work within the digital solutions area to create and support AWS based APIs that power our B2B EDI solutions.
What You Will Be Doing
Develop microservices:
high scale, fault tolerant, low latency APIs
event driven architectures
Database reliant
Own the entire software life cycle:
Design
Build
Operate
Be agile
Prefer small releases over big bangs
Deploy straight through to production
Frequent, iterative releases
Constantly try to
build upon and improve our tool chain
Improve our understanding of the best way of doing things
Communicate positively and work as a team (we’re humans not tech bros)
The tech:
AWS serverless technologies (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB)
Docker (deployed to Hashicorp Nomad for Java and JavaScript applications)
Kong (API Gateway)
Datadog (logging, monitoring and thresholds)
Vault (secrets management)
Terraform (deploying infrastructure)
Gitlab + Gitlab CI (git repo and continuous integration)
Plus anything else the team finds useful
What You’ll Bring
Can do mindset that positively impacts on the team
Ability to problem solve at the code and platform level
Work with non-technical team members to turn project briefs into actionable programmes of work
Easy to get on with, good communicator
Technical experience needed for the role, minimum of 5 years:
Experience creating and maintaining Java based services
Experience of designing, building and operating HTTP based services
Experience of working with multiple microservices and distributed systems
Experience working with eventual consistency
Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
Experience improving existing services and ways of working
Cloud computing experience
Continuous integration experience (git based, writing CI scripts)
Experience in one dynamic typed language (e.g. JavaScript, PHP)
Mature approach to testing (e.g. unit tests, integration tests, security auditing)
We Are RS
We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.
We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.
Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.
Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-CF1