Location: This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK.
Contract Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
We're looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join our Digital Solutions team, where you'll design, develop and support AWS-based APIs that power our B2B EDI solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer at the beginning of their career who enjoys solving technical challenges, working across the full software development lifecycle, and contributing to scalable, resilient solutions in a collaborative environment.
What You'll Be Doing
- Working in a team to develop API microservices and frontend experiences that are: high scale; fault tolerant; and low latency
- Building APIs and event driven architectures that are database reliant
- Owning the entire software life cycle: design; build; and operate
- Using modern software development techniques: preferring small releases over big bangs; owning the deployment straight through to production; and performing frequent, iterative releases
- Improving how the team works: build upon and improve our tool chain; improve our understanding of the best way of doing things; and communicate positively and work as a team (we’re humans not tech bros)
- Working with modern cloud technology: AWS serverless technologies (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB); Docker; Kong; Datadog; Vault; Terraform; and Gitlab
What You'll Bring
Essential
- Either 1 year experience creating and maintaining Java based services, or a relevant software development qualification
- Experience in one dynamic typed language (e.g. JavaScript, PHP)
- Mature approach to testing (e.g. unit tests, integration tests, security auditing)
- Open to working on user interfaces (HTML, CSS & JavaScript)
- Working with multiple HTTP based services
- 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
Desirable
- Working with eventual consistency
- Working with relational and non-relational databases
- Improving existing services and ways of working
- Cloud computing experience
- Continuous integration experience (git based, writing CI scripts)
We Are RS
At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.
As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.
What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – we are one team, we deliver brilliantly, we do the right thing, and we make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.
Join us and help make amazing happen.
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 over 8,500 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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