Join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test
- Work in customer-focused agile squads and collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define the next iteration of Mettle.
- Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
What you'll do
You’ll be working collaboratively across our missions to define and continually improve our testing strategy for new and existing products. You'll also drive the direction of our testing chapter to ensure it maintains the highest standards of technology and process.
You’ll also be:
- Developing clean, elegant and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend
- Building scalable automated testing systems that enable us to ship value to customers at pace
- Supporting other engineers to test their software and act as a subject matter expert
- Working with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of quality engineering at NatWest Boxed and put long-term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions
The skills you'll need
You’ll need hands-on experience with common back end test automation frameworks, and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline. We are also looking for people with an awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration.
You’ll also need:
- Hands on experience with ReactNative, front-end test automation frameworks and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline
- Knowledge of software performance and automates security testing techniques and tooling
- A strong understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
- Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices as part of an agile team
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
22/10/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Hands-on experience with back-end test automation frameworks
- Experience integrating test automation into continuous deployment pipelines
- Awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration
- Hands-on experience with React Native
- Experience with front-end test automation frameworks
- Knowledge of software performance testing techniques and tooling
- Knowledge of automated security testing techniques and tooling
- Strong understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development
- Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices in an agile team
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.
