In this role, you’ll collaborate with architects, product owners, systems engineers, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and operate solutions that integrate data from diverse sources. A solid understanding of REST APIs, data transformation, and sequencing of API calls will be key, along with knowledge of Apollo Graph and datagraph structures (nodes, edges, and paths) to effectively navigate and query data relationships.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

Work collaboratively as part of a high-performing team, striving for collective success.
Take ownership of technical solutions alongside your engineering manager and architecture teams across the full cloud SDLC.
Shape and advise on technical best practices to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Develop testable, maintainable, and production-ready code.
Mentor and support less experienced engineers, lead code reviews, and contribute to the team’s technical growth.

Our Tech Stack:

Languages & Frameworks: GraphQL, Node.js
Databases: SQL (RDBMS), NoSQL
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, IAM), Kong, Consul, Vault
Testing Tools: Cucumber, Postman, JMeter
DevOps & CI/CD: Git, GitLab, Terraform / CloudFormation
Testing Practices: Test plans, test cases, system & regression testing, TDD

About You: You’re a hands-on engineer with a passion for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring others, and have a natural curiosity for solving complex technical challenges. You’re comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, from design to deployment, and you bring both technical expertise and a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset.

What We’re Looking For:

Strong experience as a software engineer with deep expertise in Node.js.
Proven experience in developing APIs (REST).
Logical thinker with excellent attention to detail.
Solid understanding of low-level design principles and technical integration skills.
Awareness of contemporary engineering best practices and common anti-patterns.
Experience working in distributed and diverse environments.
Familiarity with unit testing and TDD practices.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong business awareness and ability to align technical solutions to commercial needs.
A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for opportunities to raise the bar.

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.

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