About the Role
A global company in B2B ecommerce, RS Group’s digital department is responsible for over 60 websites worldwide, reaching millions of users every month. Based in Corby (Northamptonshire), London or remote, we are using cloud technologies and DevOps practices to digitally transform the business.
Responsibilities
- Own the entire software life cycle: design, build and operate our services.
- Be agile: prefer small releases over big bang deployments, deploy straight through to production, and release frequently with iterative improvements.
- Constantly try to build upon and improve our tool chain, deepen our understanding of best practices, and communicate positively while working as a team.
Technology Stack
- AWS serverless technologies (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB)
- Docker (deployed to Hashicorp Nomad for Java and JavaScript applications)
- Kong (API Gateway)
- Datadog (logging, monitoring and thresholds)
- Vault (secrets management)
- Terraform (deploying infrastructure)
- GitLab + GitLab CI (git repository and continuous integration)
- Anything else the team finds useful.
Mindset & Skills
- Positive ‘can do’ mindset that positively impacts the team.
- Ability to problem‑solve at both the code and platform level.
- Work with non‑technical team members to turn project briefs into actionable programmes of work.
- Easy to get on with, good communicator.
Qualifications
Technical experience needed for the role, minimum of five years:
- Experience creating and maintaining Java‑based services.
- Experience designing, building and operating HTTP‑based services.
- Experience working with multiple microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience with eventual consistency.
- Experience with relational and non‑relational databases.
- Experience improving existing services and ways of working.
- Cloud computing experience.
- Continuous integration experience (git‑based, writing CI scripts).
- Experience in one dynamic‑typed language (e.g., JavaScript, PHP).
- Mature approach to testing (unit tests, integration tests, security auditing).
Benefits
- 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‑modeling our values.
Company
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 is to make amazing happen for a better world. We ship a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries and employ around 9,000 colleagues worldwide.
Reward Strategy
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.
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