Senior Software Engineer

Location: This role is offered on permanent basis. You can be based 100% remotely, or if you’d prefer to work from one of our offices you could be based in London, Corby or Manchester. 
 
Overview of the Role

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 senior software engineer to work within the digital procurement team to create and support AWS based APIs that power our B2B EDI solutions.

What You Will Be Doing

Develop microservices:
•    high scale, fault tolerant, low latency APIs
•    event driven architectures
•    Database reliant

As a team own the entire software life cycle:
•    Design
•    Build
•    Operate 

Work in an agile team:
•    Prefer small releases over big bangs
•    Deploy straight through to production
•    Frequent, iterative releases

Constantly try to:
•    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 you’ll be using:

•    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

About You

You will have the following technical experience: 

•    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)

You will also be someone that: 

•    Positively impact the team on a daily basis:
o    Mentoring engineers
o    Leading development with a group of engineers
•    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

RS – who we are
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 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 over 2000 colleagues here in the UK – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.
 
Rewards
 
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:
•    Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma.
•    Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members.
•    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.
 
Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

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