Senior Software Engineer
Location: Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF
Brand: RS Group
Function: Digital & Technology
Work Location: Virtual
Senior Software Engineer (Node.JS and Rust)
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent
At RS Group, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Graph & Content team. In this role, you’ll help design, build, and evolve the core services that power over 60 global websites.
You’ll play a key part in shaping the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards used across multiple teams at RS. We are a pioneer in B2B ecommerce and are undergoing a major digital transformation, continuously exploring new technologies to improve how customers experience our platforms.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services using Node.js and Rust
- Developing and evolving federated GraphQL architectures across multiple domains and services
- Contributing to the design and implementation of microservice-based systems
- Building and maintaining serverless applications on AWS
- Working closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions
- Implementing robust CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment processes
- Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code (unit, integration, and end-to-end testing)
- Working with Headless CMS platforms (Contentful) to support global content delivery
- Exploring and integrating AI development tooling where appropriate to improve engineering efficiency
- Supporting system performance, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments
- Participating in technical design discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Sharing knowledge and helping to mentor and support other engineers within the team
About You
You are a backend-focused engineer who builds reliable, high-performance systems and enjoys solving complex, large-scale problems. You’re curious, comfortable with cloud-native architectures, and like understanding end-to-end systems. You take ownership of your work, value collaboration, contribute to technical discussions, and support others through knowledge sharing and feedback.
What You’ll Need
- Strong commercial experience with Node.js development
- Knowledge of Rust (professional or strong practical experience)
- Experience using Rhai for embedding scripting within Rust applications
- Proven experience designing and implementing Federated GraphQL architectures (schema design, governance, subgraph ownership, performance optimisation)
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Experience designing and delivering serverless solutions on AWS
- Solid AWS cloud architecture experience and understanding of best practices
- Strong DevOps mindset and experience working in CI/CD environments
- Experience implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration, and E2E testing)
- Experience working with Headless CMS platforms, particularly Contentful
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering productivity tooling
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.
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