Associate Software Engineer

Associate Software Engineer,
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent
RS Group is looking for a passionate and driven Associate Software Engineer to join our fast-growing technology team. In this role, you'll work closely with a collaborative team to develop and maintain microservices-based applications that power our global platforms.

You’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions from day one — helping to shape and build scalable, secure, and high-performing software systems. A proactive mindset, ownership mentality, and enthusiasm for learning will set you up for success in this role.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Collaborate with your team to build, support, and enhance microservices-based applications
• Participate in agile development ceremonies and contribute to cross-functional initiatives
• Troubleshoot, debug, and address production issues with a sense of accountability
• Contribute to building high-quality, maintainable, and scalable solutions
• Work with modern technologies and tooling in a cloud-first environment

The Stack You’ll Work With:

We use the following technologies, and we always welcome fresh perspectives and ideas to continually improve our engineering culture:

• Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, DynamoDB), HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, Nomad)
• Authentication: Auth0 for API authorization
• DevOps & Tooling: GitLab CI (CI/CD pipelines), Kong, Postman, Apollo GraphQL
• Observability: Datadog
• Infrastructure & Automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Distributed Caching with Redis

About You:

You're an enthusiastic and curious engineer who thrives in collaborative environments and loves solving real-world problems. You’re eager to learn, unafraid to ask questions, and always looking to improve both yourself and the code you write. You value quality, reliability, and continuous delivery — and you take pride in contributing to a supportive team environment.

What You Bring:

• At least 2 years of experience in software development, ideally within agile environments
• A strong foundation in modern programming languages, preferably Java or similar
• An understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native development practices
• Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-first development approaches
• Effective communicator — able to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Strong team player who builds rapport and collaborates well across technical and non-technical teams
• A proactive and ownership-driven mindset, especially when it comes to production support
• Eagerness to grow your expertise in backend architecture, observability, and performance optimization
   

Desirable Experience:

• Exposure to DevOps practices and tooling
• Experience with performance testing and optimization techniques
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and distributed systems
• Familiarity with caching strategies and performance tuning for backend APIs
• Prior experience with GraphQL and/or authentication solutions like Auth0
• Any relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Java, or SAP modules)
   

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.​