Associate Software Engineer

Rsgroup; Corby; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a passionate Associate Software Engineer to join their dynamic technology team. In this remote role, you'll collaborate with talented colleagues to develop and maintain microservices-based applications that drive global platforms. You will have the chance to contribute from day one, working with modern technologies in a cloud-first environment. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills in a supportive and inclusive workplace that values diversity and continuous improvement. If you're eager to make a meaningful impact and thrive in a collaborative setting, this role is for you.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private healthcare

Support for ongoing health conditions

Neurodiversity support

Fertility support

LGBTQ+ support

IVF coverage for lesbian couples

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software development, ideally in agile.
• Strong foundation in Java or similar modern programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to build and enhance microservices-based applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues with accountability.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

ReactJS

Microservices Architecture

AWS

Agile Development

Effective Communication

DevOps Practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, DynamoDB)

HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, Nomad)

Redis

Job description

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Associate Software Engineer

Location:

Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS Group

Function: Digital & Technology

Work Location: Virtual

Associate Software Engineer,
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent
RS Group is looking for a passionate and driven Associate Software Engineer to join our fast-growing technology team. In this role, you'll work closely with a collaborative team to develop and maintain microservices-based applications that power our global platforms.

You’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions from day one — helping to shape and build scalable, secure, and high-performing software systems. A proactive mindset, ownership mentality, and enthusiasm for learning will set you up for success in this role.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Collaborate with your team to build, support, and enhance microservices-based applications
• Participate in agile development ceremonies and contribute to cross-functional initiatives
• Troubleshoot, debug, and address production issues with a sense of accountability
• Contribute to building high-quality, maintainable, and scalable solutions
• Work with modern technologies and tooling in a cloud-first environment

The Stack You’ll Work With:

We use the following technologies, and we always welcome fresh perspectives and ideas to continually improve our engineering culture:

• Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, DynamoDB), HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, Nomad)
• Authentication: Auth0 for API authorization
• Infrastructure & Automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Distributed Caching with Redis

About You:

You're an enthusiastic and curious engineer who thrives in collaborative environments and loves solving real-world problems. You’re eager to learn, unafraid to ask questions, and always looking to improve both yourself and the code you write. You value quality, reliability, and continuous delivery — and you take pride in contributing to a supportive team environment.

What You Bring:

• At least 2 years of experience in software development, ideally within agile environments
• A strong foundation in modern programming languages, preferably Java or similar
• An understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native development practices
• Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-first development approaches
• Effective communicator — able to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Strong team player who builds rapport and collaborates well across technical and non-technical teams
• A proactive and ownership-driven mindset, especially when it comes to production support
• Eagerness to grow your expertise in backend architecture, observability, and performance optimization
  
• Exposure to DevOps practices and tooling
• Experience with performance testing and optimization techniques
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and distributed systems
• Familiarity with caching strategies and performance tuning for backend APIs
• Prior experience with GraphQL and/or authentication solutions like Auth0
• Any relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Java, or SAP modules)
  

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.