.NET Software Engineer

NatWest Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a .Net Software Engineer in Bristol to design and develop innovative software solutions. This role offers opportunities to advance your career while collaborating in a supportive team environment, adopting Agile practices, and applying your full stack experience to deliver key business objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience in full stack software design and implementation.
• Ability to lead programming best practices around automation and scalability.
• Solid experience with Microsoft technology, especially .NET Core.

Responsibilities

• Designing, producing, testing, and implementing software.
• Applying Agile methods in software development.
• Delivering resilient software and maintaining intentional architecture.

Skills

Full stack development

Software design

Agile methodology

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

.NET Core

MS SQL

REST Microservices

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Join us as a .Net Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a .Net 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

• This role is available as either full time, reduced hours, or part time with a minimum of 28 working hours and you’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend at least one day a week in our Bristol office

What you'll do

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 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

The skills you'll need

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 need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation, and with business and systems requirements. Know-how on architectural patterns and OAuth2/OpenID Connect would be a plus.

Along with a very good command of English and excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills, you’ll have the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance

• Solid experience in Microsoft technology with .NET Core and Web framework, MS SQL, and REST Microservices

• Strong experience building, SAST scanning, code quality scanning, testing, and deploying Single Page Applications to public clouds via continuous integration and associated tooling such as GitLab or Jenkins

• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales

• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector