Senior Software Engineer

Location: This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK.

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

The Senior Software Engineer, Microservices - Identity works within a team on new and existing Identity Microservices.

You will have a collaborative approach to solving problems, and an ownership mentality when it comes to addressing production issues.

What You Will Be Doing

Key Accountabilities 

• Work within your team as a Senior Engineer on the Identity suite of APIs and services.
• Collaborate between agile teams and domains.

The Stack 

We use the following technologies and we’re completely open for people to bring their own experiences and change to make the engineering culture better.

• Development in Java, NodeJS, Spring Boot, ReactJS
• Auth0 for API Authentication and Authorisation
• Knowledge or Experience of AWS – Lambda, SNS, SQS, Identity and Access Management (IAM), NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
• Infrastructure as code (IaC) using pipelines and automation (GitLab CI)
• Postman, Apollo GraphQL, Adobe Digital Commerce
• Introspection and observability tooling (Datadog)

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of 10 years experience in information technology development and engineering.
• Enterprise Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security
• API Design & Integration: Building and securing RESTful APIs and ideally, GraphQL
• Database Management: Proficiency in relational (MySQL, ORACLE) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) databases.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying to AWS
• Containerisation & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Docker and automated deployment pipelines
• Mentoring & Leadership: Guiding junior developers, leading design reviews, and promoting team coding standards
• Strong collaboration, teamwork and relationship building skills across multiple levels and functions in a technology organization.
• Ability to listen, build rapport, and credibility with your colleagues.
• Ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods.
• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matter to colleagues in other teams, as well as stakeholders.
• Okta Auth0 Experience

We Are RS

We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. 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 to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact. 

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 c. 9,000 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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