Principal Engineer - Web Platform (UX, UI And CMS), Director

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead web platform architecture and delivery, focusing on UX, UI and CMS. You will own end-to-end engineering, drive modernization, and mentor teams across product and design.

This senior role requires deep frontend expertise, platform thinking, and strategic collaboration with stakeholders to shape the digital banking experience. The role emphasizes scalable, high-performance web solutions, with a strong focus on security,

Qualifications

• 18+ years of total professional software engineering experience and hands-on leadership.
• 10+ years hands-on experience with JavaScript and front-end engineering.
• Deep experience with CMS ecosystems and large-scale web platforms transformation.
• Experience shaping enterprise architecture, standards and roadmaps.
• Proven ability to work with product, design and engineering teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead web feature engineering and delivery for scalable, high-quality web solutions.
• Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence across teams.
• Define and govern engineering design, architecture models and roadmaps.
• Drive modernization of architecture, development practices and standards.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Architecture design

DevOps & Agile

JavaScript/TypeScript

CMS ecosystems

Stakeholder management

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer - Web Platform (UX, UI And CMS)

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
• You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
• We're offering this role at director 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 leading and providing senior technical ownership for web feature engineering, driving the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-quality web solutions. Strengthen engineering leadership by working closely with development teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering technical excellence. Lead initiatives to enhance the quality, consistency, performance, and maintainability of the web platform while modernizing architecture, development practices, and technology standards to support long-term business and engineering goals.

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
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

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. You'll need at least eighteen years of total professional experience with hands-on modern web engineering leader responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing large-scale web and CMS platforms, driving best practices across web components, semantic HTML, accessibility, performance optimization, browser-native APIs, design tokens, responsive and fluid layouts, and maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript architectures.

You’ll need experience in leading the evolution of legacy platforms toward modern, standards-based solutions while partnering with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences, including at least ten years of hands-on experience with JavaScript, along with deep expertise in modern front-end engineering, CMS ecosystems, and large-scale web platform transformation initiatives.

You’ll 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