Software Engineer - NatWest Group

Join us as a Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge

Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions

It's a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

In your new role, you'll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You'll also be

Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business

Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning

Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability

Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions

Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience developing modern web applications and contributing to the delivery of high-quality software solutions. You'll be comfortable working as part of an Agile team, translating requirements into effective technical outcomes and collaborating with engineers, designers and stakeholders to deliver great user experiences.

You'll bring a practical approach to software engineering, contributing across the development lifecycle while supporting continuous improvement, quality and performance. You'll also be keen to learn, share knowledge and help improve the ways of working within your team.

You'll also demonstrate

Experience developing front-end applications using JavaScript (ES6+), React, HTML5 and CSS3

Knowledge of responsive design, web accessibility, testing practices and application performance optimisation

Working with Git, GitLab CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices

Exposure to Agile delivery, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and backlog refinement

An understanding of front-end architecture, state management tools, deployment automation and cloud-hosted applications

The ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, work from Figma designs, troubleshoot issues and contribute to engineering best practice