Software Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Scotland is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their high-performance solutions. This role involves engineering software, collaborating with teams, and applying best practices in programming. Ideal candidates will have experience in Cloud Architecture, AI/ML, and Agile methodologies. The position provides growth opportunities while working on critical software projects.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
• Experience in Cloud Architecture and Migrations.
• Familiarity with Prompt Engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engineer software, scripts, and tools within a feature team.
• Produce complex and critical software rapidly and high quality.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.

Skills

Cloud Architecture / Migrations

AI/ML model development

DevOps and Agile methodology

Experience with multiple programming languages

Problem-solving skills

Programming best practices

Tools

Development and testing tools

Bug tracking tools

Job description

Overview

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