Principal Engineer, Core Java

RBS; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS in India is seeking a Principal Engineer at VP level to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You will contribute to architecture, design and engineering centres of excellence, collaborating to enhance the bank's software engineering capability.

You will work with software engineers on production and prototyping, validate architectures with domain and enterprise architects and drive end-to-end automation, security, and performance improvements across

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Core Java with multithreading.
• Low-latency system design and development experience.
• Experience with Microservices architecture.
• Experience in the FX domain.
• Java full-stack development experience with PostgreSQL and Linux.
• Significant experience with test-driven development and automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Define, create and govern engineering and design solutions with end-to-end automation, resilience, security and performance.
• Collaborate with platform teams and engineers to deliver bank platforms and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical requirements.
• Design, produce, test and implement working code with Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Core Java

Multithreading

Low-latency design

Microservices

FX domain

Java full-stack

PostgreSQL

Linux

Test-driven development

Tools

DevOps

Agile

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

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

06/11/2026