Software Engineer, Digital Assistant

NatWest Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider in Manchester is seeking a Software Engineer to create high-performance and secure solutions. You will work with a dedicated team to produce and maintain innovative software, using your expertise in Python and FullStack JS. Ideal candidates will have experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, and a solid understanding of Agile, DevOps, and AWS. This role offers a chance to drive software development and enhance your technical skills while collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, design, and architecture.
• Experience with Python, with a focus on Data Science or Machine Learning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure solutions.
• Produce complex software rapidly, ensuring high quality.
• Work in teams responsible for the full software life cycle.
• Collaborate to optimize engineering capabilities.

Skills

Python

FullStack JS

Data Science

Machine Learning

CI/CD

DevOps

Agile methodology

Tools

Development and testing tools

Bug tracking tools

Wikis

AWS cloud platform

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 of hosting on AWS cloud platform
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance