Principal Software Engineer - Core Java

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer for Core Java in India. You will design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective, contribute to architecture and engineering excellence, and collaborate to improve the bank’s software engineering capability.

Vice president level positioning. You will define architectures, oversee end-to-end automation, and work with platform teams to deliver high-performance, secure systems.

Qualifications

• At least 12 years of experience in Core Java with hands-on experience in multithreading.
• Strong experience in low-latency system design and development.
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture.
• Experience in the FX domain.
• Good to have experience in Java full-stack development, PostgreSQL, Agile, and Linux.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Hours 45
• Job Posting Closing Date: 06/11/2026
• Experience Level Senior Level

Skills

Core Java

Multithreading

Low-latency design

Microservices

Java full-stack

PostgreSQL

Agile

Linux

Test-driven development

Automated testing

Tools

PostgreSQL

Linux

Job description

Principal Engineer, Core Java

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

You’ll also need:

• At least 12 years of experience in Core Java with hands-on experience in multithreading
• Strong experience in low-latency system design and development
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture
• Experience in the FX domain
• Good to have experience in Java full-stack development, PostgreSQL, Agile, and Linux
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 06/11/2026

Experience Level Senior Level