Software Engineer, Engineering Platforms Team - NatWest Group

Join us as a Software Engineer, Engineering Platforms Team

Join our Engineering Platforms team delivers a modern software development tools chain for engineers across the bank, which protects them from the complexities of developing and delivering applications within NatWest Group

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer

You'll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

Working in a permanent product team, you'll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You'll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You'll also be

Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog

Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs

Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping

Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You'll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you'll demonstrate

Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business

Strong understanding of designing scalable, maintainable, extensible systems by applying best practices in software architecture. Skilled at leveraging language-specific strengths across multiple languages (Java, Python, JavaScript) for designing solutions, reviewing clean code, optimising testability and performance Pro-actively identify and resolve inefficiencies autonomously, driving process optimisation and automation initiatives without explicit instruction

Demonstrated experience with information security policies, managing vulnerabilities and practices specific to the financial sector, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of advancements in Artificial Intelligence, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and related tooling. Understand their impact on software development workflows and leverage these insights to enhance productivity and innovation

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language for diverse audiences