Principal Engineer, Vice President

RBS; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,200,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join us in Bengaluru as a Principal Engineer, a VP level role focused on delivering high-performance, secure software with a strong customer emphasis. You will shape architecture and engineering practices, drive automation, and collaborate with architects to scale platforms for banking services.

You will lead frontend/backend integration, maintain real-time, low-latency systems and apply Agile/DevOps to improve delivery, quality and resilience across teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture.
• Experience developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Responsibilities

• Create great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to validate architectures.
• Design and develop software with end-to-end automation for build, test and deployment.
• Define governance of engineering solutions focusing on automation, resilience, security and performance.
• Work within a platform or feature team to design and engineer complex software and tools enabling delivery of bank platforms and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical requirements.

Skills

distributed systems

high-throughput platforms

low-latency

full stack

Java/J2EE

microservices

micro frontend

event-driven patterns

cloud platforms (AWS)

container orchestration (Kubernetes)

APIs frameworks

test-driven development

automated test frameworks

unit testing tools

performance engineering

observability

operational excellence

fraud prevention

risk decisioning

real-time scoring systems

code repositories

bug tracking tools

wikis

lead software development teams

DevOps

Agile

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Java/J2EE

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:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Extensive experience in software engineering roles, with strong expertise in distributed systems and real‑time, high‑throughput, low‑latency platforms
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of full stack, Java/J2EE/ microservices/micro frontend , event‑driven patterns , cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern API frameworks
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Strong understanding of performance engineering, resilience patterns, observability, and operational excellence
• Experience with fraud prevention , risk decisioning , or real‑time scoring systems is desirable
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

02/09/2026