Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
- You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
- Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
- We're offering this role at vice president level
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
You’ll also be:
- Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
- Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
- Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- At least 15 years of experience working with Java, including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST API design, secure coding practices, and applying Domain‑Driven Design and clean architecture principles
- A strong track record in designing and building scalable and resilient microservices, along with event‑driven architectures using Kafka and distributed system design patterns
- Hands‑on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes and major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP, following cloud‑native engineering principles
- Solid experience in CI/CD automation, including comprehensive unit and integration testing, as well as observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK stack
- Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring developers, driving architectural decisions, resolving complex technical issues and contributing effectively within Agile teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
09/09/2026Skills Required
- At least 15 years of experience working with Java
- Experience with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Experience with REST API design and secure coding practices
- Experience applying Domain-Driven Design and clean architecture principles
- Strong full-stack software design and implementation experience
- Ability to perform complex requirements analysis, capture, and validation
- Experience designing and building scalable, resilient microservices
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka
- Experience with distributed systems design patterns
- Hands-on expertise with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience applying cloud-native engineering principles
- Experience with CI/CD automation
- Experience with comprehensive unit and integration testing
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring developers and driving architectural decisions
- Ability to resolve complex technical issues and contribute effectively within Agile teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts simply
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.
