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 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:
  
  
  
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• Own the entire software life cycle:
  
  
  
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    • Prefer small releases over big bangs
    
    
    • Deploy straight through to production
    
    
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• Constantly try to
  
  
  
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    • 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.

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