Software Engineer, Digital Assistant

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

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the UK is seeking a driven Software Engineer to build innovative, high-performance solutions. In this role, you will collaborate within feature teams, utilize your expertise in software design, and work extensively with Python and FullStack JS. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of AWS and experience in CI/CD and agile methodologies. This position offers a significant opportunity for career advancement.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
• Experience with Data Science or Machine Learning preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of programming best practices.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain customer-centric solutions.
• Produce complex software rapidly of high quality.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.

Skills

Python

FullStack JS including NodeJS

Development tools

CI/CD

DevOps methodologies

AWS cloud platform

Tools

Bug tracking tools

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 build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, 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 with responsibility 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 code
• 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.

Additionally you'll have experience in Python, preferably with Data Science or Machine Learning experience, along with FullStack JS including NodeJS.

You’ll also need:

• Knowledge and experience with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience of CI/CD, DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• In depth knowledge ofhosting on AWS cloud platform
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance