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

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is hiring a Principal Engineer for Web Platform (UX, UI and CMS) in Bengaluru. You will design and engineer customer-centric web solutions, defining major components of the architecture and roadmap while collaborating with senior stakeholders.

You will lead platform teams, modernize architecture and development practices, and own end-to-end delivery of high‑quality digital experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of total professional experience with hands-on web engineering leadership.
• Extensive experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, CMS ecosystems and large-scale web platforms.
• Ability to translate product and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the design, development and delivery of scalable web solutions.
• Drive architecture models and roadmaps to meet business needs across domains.
• Mentor engineers, promote technical excellence, and govern platform standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Frontend engineering

CMS expertise

JavaScript/TypeScript

Accessibility

Performance optimization

DevOps

Architecture design

Leadership

Test-driven development

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

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 27/08/2026