Principal Engineer, VP

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

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx in Bengaluru is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the technical delivery of high-performance software components for the bank. You will lead one or more engineering teams, influence architectural choices and mentor engineers in an agile, collaborative environment.

This VP-level role emphasizes leadership, strategic thinking and active participation in internal and industry events, while building reusable APIs and libraries and ensuring systems meet availability and

Qualifications

• Experience leading software development teams and delivering technical strategies.
• Strong API design and implementation experience.
• Background in building scalable, highly available systems.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing.
• Experience in APIs and integrating services within microservices/SOA.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, development and deployment of high performance, robust systems.
• Manage one or more software engineering teams and mentor engineers.
• Drive development of software and tools to meet project objectives.
• Lead participation in internal and industry events, conferences and activities.
• Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank.
• Write unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality.

Skills

Leadership in software teams

API design & development

Scalability & performance

Test-driven development

SOA / microservices architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

APIs

CI/CD tooling

Automated testing frameworks

Job description

Job Summary

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment
• With your software development background, youll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
• As well as developing your technical talents, you'll have the opportunity to build project and leadership skills which will open up a range of exciting career options
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, youll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. Youll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, and will develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams.

Youll also gain a distinguished leadership status in the software engineering community as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities.

Youll also be:

• Designing and developing high performance and high availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies
• Making sure that the banks systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
• Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
• Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

Youll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.

Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, youll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

Youll also need:

• Experience of leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Knowledge of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
• Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIsExperience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own

Hours

45