Software Engineer

NatWest Group; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Software Engineer in London. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing critical software while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should possess strong full stack skills, experience with software best practices, and a solid understanding of information security in the finance sector. This is a hybrid position with a focus on Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software design and implementation.
• Complex requirements analysis and validation skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts simply.

Responsibilities

• Designing, testing, and implementing software across the system lifecycle.
• Applying Agile methods to software development.
• Delivering resilient software with a focus on automation.

Skills

Full stack experience

Programming best practices

Collaboration skills

Information security policies

Stakeholder management

Open Banking APIs

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:

• 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 and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
• A background in designing or implementing Open Banking APIs

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

18/07/2025 Ways of Working:Hybrid