API Software Engineer: Build Scalable Microservices

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Edinburgh is seeking an API Software Engineer to design, build and maintain high performance, secure APIs and services.

You will work in a feature team, collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts, and contribute across the full software lifecycle from design to deployment.

The role values hands-on coding, API design excellence, and a proactive approach to DevOps, CI/CD and operational reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering scalable, reliable applications across the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborative team player with strong Agile delivery experience.
• Ability to solve complex technical challenges and optimize software systems.

Responsibilities

• Engineer software, scripts and tools within a feature team and liaise with engineers, architects and analysts across the platform.
• Produce complex, high-quality software delivering clear business value.
• Work through the full life cycle from initial development to maintenance and decommissioning.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.
• Design, test and implement working software solutions.
• Work across requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment and operations.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Maven

DB2

GitLab

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Performance tuning

DevOps

CI/CD

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

NatWest Group in Edinburgh is seeking an API Software Engineer to design, build and maintain high performance, secure APIs and services.

You will work in a feature team, collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts, and contribute across the full software lifecycle from design to deployment.

The role values hands-on coding, API design excellence, and a proactive approach to DevOps, CI/CD and operational reliability.