Web Developer

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

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a Web Developer to work with innovative technology and deliver impactful solutions. You will design software components, oversee quality, and write unit tests in a remote-first environment. Candidates should have extensive experience in software engineering principles and a strong background in developing software within a micro-services architecture.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering, software design or database design.
• Extensive experience in developing software in SOA or micro-services paradigm.
• Development experience in a programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs.
• Oversee quality of work to meet technical standards.
• Write unit and integration tests in automated environments.

Skills

Software engineering principles

Micro-services paradigm

Test-driven development

Angular 18

Typescript

REST services

Security concepts

Tools

RxJS

SaSS

Bootstrap

Job description

Join us as a Web Developer

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Web Developer. You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions. Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role. You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll spend at least once a week in our Manchester office.

What you'll do

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also be:

• Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Designing and developing software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments
• Driving the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Writing unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a strong background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as extensive experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also have knowledge of Angular 18, Typescript, Frameworks like RxJS, SaSS, Bootstrap, Security concepts, and experience with REST services and Micro Front End Architecture.

You’ll also need:

• Extensive experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales
• An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams

Hours: 35

Ways of Working: Remote First