Software Engineer - Microservices

Software Engineer (Graph)
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent

RS Group is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Product & Price domain team. You’ll work within a collaborative agile environment, developing and supporting new and existing microservices and GraphQL APIs that power our global digital platforms.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Integrate our Apollo GraphQL-fronted Product API with a new Adobe Commerce implementation.
• Support, maintain, and enhance existing Apollo GraphQL microservices.
• Collaborate within your agile team to develop, deploy, and support microservices-based applications.
• Work closely with other engineering teams and domains to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

Our Tech Stack

We embrace modern technology and welcome new ideas that help us continuously improve our engineering culture.

You’ll be working with:

• Node.js and Java for development.
• AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB).
• Apollo GraphQL.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using automation and pipelines (GitLab CI).
• Postman, GitLab Pipelines, Adobe Digital Commerce.
• Datadog for introspection and observability.

About You

You’re a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You’re passionate about building reliable, scalable services and love solving complex technical challenges. You care about quality, teamwork, and driving meaningful change.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in software development and engineering within a modern tech environment.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across teams and levels.
• Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to lead change positively.
• Experience with Okta Auth0 is a plus.
  
  

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.​

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