Principal Engineer, Core Java

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in India is hiring a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You will contribute to the architecture, design, and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability.

You’ll work with software engineers on production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engage with domain and enterprise architects, and focus on automation of build, test and deployment activities

Qualifications

• At least 12 years of experience in Core Java with hands-on experience in multithreading.
• Strong experience in low-latency system design and development.
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture.
• Experience in the FX domain.
• Good to have experience in Java full-stack development, PostgreSQL, Agile, and Linux.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer software with customer-centric focus, contributing to architecture and engineering centre of excellence.
• Collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage ideas across wider contexts.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical requirements, driving usability across products and domains.
• Define and implement end-to-end automation for build, test, and deployment using DevOps practices.

Skills

Multithreading

Low-latency design

FX domain

DevOps/Agile

Tools

Java

PostgreSQL

Linux

Microservices

Spring/Java full-stack

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
• You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You’ll be working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We'll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You’ll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• At least 12 years of experience in Core Java with hands-on experience in multithreading
• Strong experience in low-latency system design and development
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture
• Experience in the FX domain
• Good to have experience in Java full-stack development, PostgreSQL, Agile, and Linux
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools