Accelerate FTC 2026 Batch (6 Months) / Pride Pathways (LGBTQ+ Talent Programme)

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai invites a Software Engineer to join a dynamic team building customer-centric, high-performance software solutions. You'll craft and maintain code in a collaborative, full-lifecycle environment.

The role emphasizes architecture, DevOps, testing, automation, and scalability across platforms, with opportunities to mentor peers and grow technical skills within a Pride Pathways program.

Qualifications

• Experience with development and testing tools and bug tracking systems.
• Experience in multiple programming languages or Low-Code toolsets.
• Experience with DevOps, testing and Agile methodologies and related toolsets.
• Ability to solve complex, analytical and numerical problems.
• Implement programming best practices around scalability, automation, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
• Produce complex software rapidly with high quality to add business value.
• Contribute to full life cycle: development, enhancement, maintenance, replacement or decommissioning.
• Support and optimise the software engineering capability.

Skills

Programming languages

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Testing tools

Automation

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 who are responsible 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

You'll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You'll also need:

• Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience in multiple programming languages or Low-Code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps, Testing and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

This opportunity is part of the Pride Pathways career development programme, an initiative designed to encourage talent from the LGBTQ+ community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and other sexual orientations and gender identities). The programme aims to foster inclusion and create equitable career opportunities within the organisation. As an inclusive & equal opportunity employer, we are committed to building a workplace where everyone can thrive