Join us as a Principal Engineer
- This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
- You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
- You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
- We're offering this role at vice president level
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.
You’ll be working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.
You’ll also be:
- Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
- Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
- Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques
You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
You’ll also need:
- We are ideally looking for experience of 12+ years in the below mentioned skills:
- Expertise in coding with Java 17 and above, with significant experience in microservices/API development using SpringBoot, and containerization using Docker.
- Strong expertise in Java performance optimisation to build low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Proficiency in using TDD/BDD frameworks like Cucumber/Selenium to ensure code quality.
- Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres and MongoDB.
- Skilled in using CI/CD tools, preferably GitLab/GitHub, and developing on AWS Kubernetes clusters using Helm Charts.
- Exposure to cloud deployment, preferably on AWS.
- Experience with KAFKA or any other event-driven framework.
- Experience leveraging AI/GenAI tools within the SDLC to improve developer productivity and software quality.
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
25/06/2026Skills Required
- 12+ years experience in software engineering, design and architecture
- Expertise coding with Java 17 and above
- Microservices/API development using Spring Boot
- Containerization using Docker
- Java performance optimisation for low-latency, high-throughput systems
- Proficiency with TDD/BDD frameworks (for example Cucumber, Selenium)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- Experience with CI/CD tools and automation
- Experience developing on Kubernetes (AWS clusters) and using Helm charts
- Cloud deployment experience (exposure to AWS)
- Experience with Kafka or other event-driven frameworks
- Experience leveraging AI/GenAI tools within the SDLC
- Experience working within DevOps and Agile frameworks
- Experience with GitLab or GitHub
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
