Join us as a Principal Engineer - Web Platform (UX, UI And CMS)
- This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
- With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
- You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
- We're offering this role at director 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 leading and providing senior technical ownership for web feature engineering, driving the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-quality web solutions. Strengthen engineering leadership by working closely with development teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering technical excellence. Lead initiatives to enhance the quality, consistency, performance, and maintainability of the web platform while modernizing architecture, development practices, and technology standards to support long-term business and engineering goals.
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
- Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas
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. You'll need at least eighteen years of total professional experience with hands-on modern web engineering leader responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing large-scale web and CMS platforms, driving best practices across web components, semantic HTML, accessibility, performance optimization, browser-native APIs, design tokens, responsive and fluid layouts, and maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript architectures.
You'll need experience in leading the evolution of legacy platforms toward modern, standards-based solutions while partnering with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences. , including at least ten years of hands-on experience with JavaScript, along with deep expertise in modern front-end engineering, CMS ecosystems, and large-scale web platform transformation initiatives.
You’ll also need:
- A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
- A background in designing or implementing APIs
- The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
- A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
27/08/2026Skills Required
- At least 18 years of total professional experience
- Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design, and architecture
- Experience developing software within DevOps and Agile frameworks
- Hands-on experience leading, building, scaling, and modernizing large-scale web and CMS platforms
- At least 10 years of hands-on JavaScript experience
- Deep expertise in modern front-end engineering, CMS ecosystems, and large-scale web platform transformation
- Experience with web components, semantic HTML, accessibility, performance optimization, browser-native APIs, design tokens, responsive and fluid layouts, and maintainable JavaScript or TypeScript architectures
- Experience leading the evolution of legacy platforms toward modern, standards-based solutions
- Experience partnering with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver digital experiences
- Experience leading software development teams in a matrix structure
- Experience introducing and executing technical strategies
- Demonstrable experience with test-driven development, automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing, and unit testing tools
- Experience designing or implementing APIs
- Ability to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
- Experience with code repositories, bug tracking tools, and wikis
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
