Software Engineer

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

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

Join our team as a Software Engineer and help build, test and support modern applications and cloud-based solutions that power our client platform. You'll work with technologies including React, TypeScript, Node.js and AWS, using DevOps practices such as CI/CD, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code to deliver scalable, secure and high-performing solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a modern tech stack, develop your technical expertise, and play a key role in shaping innovative products while collaborating with a supportive engineering team.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, building, testing, automating, and supporting integral infrastructure and application components within our client platform
• Deploying software and services through emerging DevOps tools such as Terraform
• Begin mentoring more junior engineers within the team
• Benchmarking and optimisation of code performance at a component level
• Security of the deployed code and understanding of the tooling available to assist in this regard

What You'll Bring

• Development experience in contemporary languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript
• Some experience with cloud infrastructure services (in AWS, Azure or similar), including serverless technologies.
• Experience with containerisation and related technologies, including Docker, Nomad (preferred) or Kubernetes.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• CI / CD pipelines, and automation (GitLab CI, Circle CI, Jenkins etc.).
• Quality assurance, performance testing and system monitoring tools.
• Some exposure to Infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Any AWS certifications would be a big plus

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.

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