Software Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Edinburgh is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team. In this role, you'll engineer and maintain high-performance solutions, collaborating with various stakeholders. Key skills needed include cloud architecture, AI/ML model development, and proficiency in multiple programming languages. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in a hybrid working environment, with a focus on innovation and customer-centric solutions.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, design, and architecture.
• Understanding of software solutions supporting customer needs.
• Experience with multiple programming languages or low code toolsets.

Responsibilities

• Engineer software, scripts, and tools within a feature team.
• Produce high-quality software that adds business value.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud Architecture

AI/ML model development

DevOps

Agile methodology

Problem solving

Tools

Bug tracking tools

Development tools

Wikis

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you’ll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you’ll need

To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience in Cloud Architecture / Migrations
• Experience with AI/ML model development, deployment along with familiarity with Prompt Engineering
• Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

20/12/2025

Ways of Working

Hybrid