Software Engineer

NatWest Group; Gogar; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A significant banking and financial services organization in Scotland is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will be responsible for engineering high-performance software solutions, collaborating across teams, and engaging in the full software lifecycle. You need a solid background in software engineering, experience with cloud migrations, and skills in various programming languages. This opportunity offers a chance to advance your career while working in a dynamic environment focused on delivering value to customers.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering and architecture required.
• Experience in Cloud Architecture and Migrations is necessary.
• Understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Engineering and maintaining innovative software solutions.
• Producing high-quality software rapidly to add business value.
• Collaborating on software engineering capabilities.
• Designing and testing working software solutions.
• Working across the software lifecycle from development to operations.

Skills

Experience with development and testing tools

Cloud Architecture/Migrations

AI/ML model development

Multiple programming languages or low code toolsets

DevOps methodology

Solving complex problems

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 withAI/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