Principal Engineer, Java And Spring Boot, VP

Natwest Digitalx; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx is seeking a Principal Engineer, Java and Spring Boot in Bengaluru. The role focuses on designing customer-centric software, leading engineering depth, and shaping architecture for scalable bank platforms.

You will drive end-to-end governance, foster innovation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software. The position requires 12+ years in software engineering within DevOps/Agile, strong API experience, and proven leadership in a matrix

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience in DevOps and Agile environments.
• Experience implementing scalable, automated, high-performance architectures.
• Proven leadership of software development teams in a matrix structure.
• Deep expertise in test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience designing or implementing APIs.
• Ability to translate product and business needs into technical solutions.
• Familiarity with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture models and roadmaps for applications and software components.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Determine design and delivery approaches for platforms' software throughout its life cycle.
• Work with platform/feature teams to enable delivery of bank platforms, apps and services.

Skills

Software architecture

DevOps

Agile

TDD

APIs

Leadership

Automation

Performance

Job description

Job Summary

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Java And Spring Boot

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• Youll be playing a major role in the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the banks overall software engineering capability
• Youll 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, youll 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. Youll 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.

Youll also be:

• 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
• Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platforms software throughout its life
• 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

The skills you'll need

Youll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as at least twelve years of experience in developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. Wed also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

Youll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours

Hours: 45