Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity - NatWest Group

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Greater London area. You will build and maintain services for engineering squads, taking ownership with increased autonomy in a squad without a PO or tech lead.

You’ll work on CI/CD pipelines, AI productivity tooling, and cross-squad collaboration to unblock blockers. You’ll engage with stakeholders to prioritise by impact, handle ambiguity, and support in-hours across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience collaborating across squads and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions and push for quality while being pragmatic.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ownership from problem to outcome.
• Experience with cross-functional teamwork, pairing and mobbing.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to prioritise based on impact and manage ambiguity.
• Work on CI/CD pipelines, Golden Paths and AI productivity tooling.
• Collaborate with other squads to solve engineering problems.
• Provide in-hours support across the business for engineers.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Debugging

Mentoring engineers

Collaboration

Ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

Go

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Senior Software Engineer

You’ll be building and maintaining the services we provide to engineering squads

With no product owner or tech lead aligned to this squad, you’ll have increased responsibility and autonomy.

What you’ll do

Y ou'll engage directly with stakeholders, prioritise based on impact, and deal with ambiguity. We use kanban so we can flexibly adapt. If a product squad is blocked, we want to be able to drop what we're doing and help them immediately.

You’ll also be:

You’ll be working on things like CI/CD pipelines, Golden Paths and AI productivity tooling. Right now, our biggest focus is enabling and supporting AI adoption across the business.

Collaborating with other squads to help them with their problems

On a rota for in-hours support, ensuring that we're there for engineers across the business when they're stuck. W hether that's a broken pipeline, a deployment issue, or something they've never seen before. It's varied, often urgent, and requires strong debugging skills and patience

The skills you’ll need

We're looking for someone who can make sound technical decisions and know when to push for quality and when to be pragmatic. You don't wait to be told what to work on - you actively look for ways to improve how squads deliver software, take ownership from problem through to outcome, and can mentor and challenge other engineers through collaboration rather than hierarchy.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

Experience of being highly collaborative - You enjoy solving problems with other people. Pairing, mobbing, and working through ideas together is how you prefer to work, not a compromise

Comfortability with ambiguity - You'll regularly pick up half-formed problems, figure out what's actually needed, engage with stakeholders, and shape the solution yourself

Being Technically Flexible - We work across infrastructure, platform tooling, CI/CD, and experience of using Docker and Kubernetes is required. We use multiple languages including Java, Go, Python, and TypeScript. You don't need to be an expert in all of them, but you're genuinely comfortable picking up unfamiliar tools and technologies

A focus on the customer - Y ou take pride in helping other engineers. Supporting squads through in-hours support is a core part of the role, and you see it as valuable work, not a chore

Excitement about AI - W e're leading the adoption of AI tooling across the business, including agentic AI and developer productivity tools. It's our biggest priority this year. You don't need to be an AI expert, but you should be genuinely excited about how AI can change the way engineers work, and eager to experiment