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
What you'll do
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
The skills you'll need
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:
- 12 or more years of experience in Java development with strong expertise in Core Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JDBC, Multithreading, JUnit, and TestNG for building scalable and high-performance applications
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including database design, complex query development, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Proven experience working in Unix/Linux environments, particularly RHEL, with expertise in application deployment, monitoring, and production support
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform GCP and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance using GitLab and TeamCity
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments using Jira and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, high-quality software solutions
- Demonstrated ability to develop, enhance, and support robust enterprise applications with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
05/10/2026Skills Required
- 12 or more years of experience in Java development
- Strong expertise in Core Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JDBC, multithreading, JUnit, and TestNG
- Experience with software engineering, software or database design, and architecture
- Experience developing software within DevOps and Agile frameworks
- Expertise in programming best practices involving scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability, and performance
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including database design, complex query development, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Experience working in Unix/Linux environments, particularly RHEL, including application deployment, monitoring, and production support
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and modern DevOps practices
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and TeamCity
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments using Jira and collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Ability to develop, enhance, and support robust enterprise applications focused on performance, scalability, and reliability
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.
