Software Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Software Engineer to join their permanent feature team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing software, working across the lifecycle of the system, while applying Agile practices and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver sustainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong full stack experience in software design and implementation.
• Current knowledge of programming best practices in a financial context.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts simply to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Designing, producing, testing, and implementing working software.
• Applying Agile methods for development.
• Producing resilient and scalable software.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Mongo

AWS

React JS

Job description

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

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 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

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 also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge and experience using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Mongo, AWS and React JS
• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way