Software Engineer, Digital Assistant

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

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the City Of London is seeking a driven Software Engineer to build innovative, customer-centric solutions. You will work within a feature team, producing high-quality software while collaborating across various levels of stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in Python and FullStack JS, along with a solid understanding of AWS cloud platform and software development best practices.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, design, and architecture.
• Experience with Python, Data Science or Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of programming best practices.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance solutions.
• Produce complex software rapidly and of high quality.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability.

Skills

Python

FullStack JS

Data Science

Machine Learning

CI/CD

DevOps

Agile methodology

AWS cloud platform

Tools

Development and testing tools

Bug tracking 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 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