RS Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Corby, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England Full Time

Software Engineer-Front End-Personalisation

Location: Remote

About the Role:

As a software engineer, you will be responsible for:

• 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

Role Context:

• Operate within our frameworks engineering team, a team of engineers building tools for other engineers within the RS Group
• Support the technology maturity of our personalisation capabilities, evolving from our current client-side solution to a highly performant, componentised server-side solution
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and/or other third parties to rollout updates, bug fixes, UI tweaks and unit tests for personalisation components/elements
• Work cross-functionally with data engineering teams to enable exploitation of rich customer data profiles across our digital experience channels.
• Support, when required, other data-driven experience technologies such as tagging/data layer & experimentation.

We’re interested in a lot, but we don’t expect everything! Our ideal candidate would be able to demonstrate at least 4 of the areas from the following list:

• 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

The Stack

We use the following technologies, and we’re completely open for people to bring their own experiences and expertise to enrich our engineering culture further.

• Development experience in React, JavaScript, Typescript, Next.js, and Node.js (Other JS Frameworks considered)
• CSS Frameworks, any experience of Tailwind is advantageous
• Good knowledge of testing frameworks (React Testing Library, Jest, Cypress, TestCafe, Webdriver.io)
• Any experience with CDNs is an advantage, particularly in Akamai
• AWS (Lambda, S3, IAM etc.)
• Infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform (with Terragrunt)
• Cloud services – HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, Nomad) and Kong
• Introspection and observability tooling (Datadog)

About RS Group:

RS Group is a global omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management. Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. Currently we estimate the global market value to be c.£400bn, with our global market share

What we can offer you:

• Remote, or to work in our offices (London or Corby) or a mix of both.
• Flexible working hours during the day, we will work around whatever personal situation you have (dropping kids off/picking them up from school, doctor appointments, etc)
• Upto 15% annual bonus
• Up to 25 days holiday (with the option to purchase a further week)
• Daily access to a GP (for you and your immediate family)
• Employers’ contribution up-to 10.5% towards pension scheme.

Footnote:

RS Group Brands: RS, Allied Electronics & Automation, RS PRO, OKdo, DesignSpark, IESA, Synovos, Needlers and Liscombe.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?