Software Engineer - Microservices

RS Components; Corby; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Product & Price domain team. The role involves developing and supporting microservices and GraphQL APIs in a collaborative, agile environment. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software development and be passionate about building reliable, scalable services. The position offers competitive benefits and a remote working option.

Benefits

Health condition support funding

Support for Neurodiverse colleagues

Women's health support

Enhanced LGBTQ+ coverage

Fertility coverage options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software development and engineering within a modern tech environment.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across teams and levels.
• Able to explain complex concepts to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Integrate the Apollo GraphQL Product API with a new Adobe Commerce implementation.
• Support, maintain, and enhance existing Apollo GraphQL microservices.
• Collaborate with the agile team to develop scalable applications.

Skills

Software development experience

Collaboration and relationship-building

Excellent communication skills

Proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Experience with Okta Auth0

Tools

Node.js

Java

AWS

Apollo GraphQL

Infrastructure as Code

GitLab CI

Postman

Datadog

Job description

Software Engineer (Graph)
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent

RS Group is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Product & Price domain team. You’ll work within a collaborative agile environment, developing and supporting new and existing microservices and GraphQL APIs that power our global digital platforms.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Integrate our Apollo GraphQL-fronted Product API with a new Adobe Commerce implementation.
• Support, maintain, and enhance existing Apollo GraphQL microservices.
• Collaborate within your agile team to develop, deploy, and support microservices-based applications.
• Work closely with other engineering teams and domains to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

Our Tech Stack

We embrace modern technology and welcome new ideas that help us continuously improve our engineering culture.
You’ll be working with:

• Node.js and Java for development.
• AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB).
• Apollo GraphQL.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using automation and pipelines (GitLab CI).
• Postman, GitLab Pipelines, Adobe Digital Commerce.
• Datadog for introspection and observability.

About You

You’re a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You’re passionate about building reliable, scalable services and love solving complex technical challenges. You care about quality, teamwork, and driving meaningful change.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in software development and engineering within a modern tech environment.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across teams and levels.
• Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to lead change positively.
• Experience with Okta Auth0 is a plus.

The extras you’ll get:

• 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.

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