Software Engineer

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Location:

London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG

Brand: RS Group

Function: Digital & Technology

Work Location: Virtual

Software Engineer
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent
RS Group is seeking a Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team.

Joining our Sales & Payment team, you'll play an important role in shaping the services and tools used not only by our own engineers but across RS Group globally. This is an exciting opportunity to build scalable, reliable solutions that have a real impact on our business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and integrate APIs (REST/GraphQL) that ensure data reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with architects, product owners, and other engineers to shape technical solutions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from design and coding through to testing and deployment.
• Apply a mature testing mindset, contributing to unit, integration, and end-to-end testing practices.
• Contribute to code reviews, pair programming, and mentoring where relevant.
• Help shape team practices and engineering standards, driving continuous improvement.
• Support and optimise cloud-based, serverless, and microservice architectures.
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• REST APIs
• React.js
• Microservice and serverless architecture
• AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, Secrets Manager)
• CI/CD practices (Git, GitLab, Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Testing frameworks and tools: unit testing, E2E testing, Cucumber, Postman, JMeter

You're a curious and motivated engineer who enjoys solving technical challenges and building software that adds real value. You thrive in collaborative environments, work well in cross-functional teams, and have a keen eye for detail. You're eager to continuously learn, share knowledge, and bring fresh ideas to improve how things are done.

• Hands-on experience with APIs (REST/GraphQL), including design, integration, and data transformation.
• Understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS) and serverless/microservices architecture.
• A solid grasp of testing practices (unit, integration, E2E).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Frontend experience with React.js.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Knowledge of tools like Cucumber and Postman for testing and automation.

The extras you'll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you'd expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we've just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette's syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. 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. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that's exactly how we partner with people - our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities - to solve problems.

We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing - because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we'll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.