Associate Software Engineer

Location: Brand: RS Group Function: Digital & Technology Work Location: Virtual 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 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 Develop, maintain and support Java-based services and APIs that power business-critical B2B integration solutions. Design, build and operate high-scale, fault-tolerant, low-latency microservices within a cloud-native AWS environment. Work across the entire software development lifecycle, from solution design and development through to deployment, monitoring and ongoing support. Contribute to event-driven architectures and distributed systems, ensuring services remain reliable, scalable and maintainable. Collaborate with engineers, product teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions. Improve existing applications, services and engineering practices through continuous improvement and innovation. Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code deployments. Participate in agile ways of working, delivering frequent, iterative releases directly to production. Support monitoring, troubleshooting and performance optimisation activities to ensure a high-quality customer experience. What You'll Bring Essential Minimum of 1 years’ experience in software engineering, or a relevant qualification covering core software development principles. Experience creating and maintaining Java-based applications or services. Understanding of HTTP-based services, APIs and microservice architectures. Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases. Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, ideally AWS. Experience working with distributed systems and concepts such as eventual consistency. Understanding of Continuous Integration and source control using Git-based platforms. Experience with at least one dynamic programming language such as JavaScript or PHP. Knowledge of software testing practices including unit testing, integration testing and security considerations. Willingness to contribute to frontend development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript when required. Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose issues at both code and platform level. Effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. A proactive, positive approach with a strong team-oriented mindset. Desirable Experience working with AWS serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS or DynamoDB. Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms. Experience with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, monitoring tools such as Datadog, or API management platforms. Understanding of DevOps practices and infrastructure automation. 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. #LI-REMOTE #LI-BM1