Join us as a Software Engineer, Frontend
- 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
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
We’re looking for someone to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You’ll bring experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments. You’ll have experience building user interfaces using React and working within cloud native environments, with an appreciation for automation as a core engineering principle.
You’ll be comfortable contributing to the development of robust and reliable software, working as part of a team to deliver high quality frontend experiences. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial
You'll also need:
- Experience building responsive user interfaces using React and TypeScript, including working with shared component libraries and using feature flags to support safe and incremental releases
- Awareness of accessibility and performance considerations, with some experience of applying WCAG standards and optimising frontend performance such as rendering patterns, lazy loading and state management
- Experience or exposure to building Backend for Frontend (BFF) services using Node.js such as Next.js, with an understanding of API and microservice design principles
- The ability to work effectively in a team that values autonomy and empowerment, with a focus on delivering quality outcomes
- Willingness to learn and develop, including supporting and learning from others within the team
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
03/07/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Experience building responsive user interfaces using React and TypeScript, including working with shared component libraries and feature flags
- Familiarity with accessibility and frontend performance best practices; some experience applying WCAG standards and optimizing rendering, lazy loading, and state management
- Experience or exposure to building Backend for Frontend (BFF) services using Node.js (e.g., Next.js) and understanding API and microservice design principles
- Experience working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments
- Experience working within cloud-native environments and an appreciation for automation as a core engineering principle
- Ability to work effectively in autonomous, empowered teams and willingness to learn and support others
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.
