Python Software Engineer

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Software Engineer at associate level in Bengaluru, India. You will build and maintain customer-centric, high‑performance software and collaborate with a cross‑functional team across the platform.

You will work on complex backend systems with FastAPI, MongoDB and AWS, ensuring scalable, secure and reliable delivery while following best practices in Git, CI/CD and Docker. This is a full‑time, on‑site role requiring strong ownership and problem solving.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python backend development with production-grade REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI.
• Experience with MongoDB data modelling and cloud deployment on AWS.
• Solid practices in Git, CI/CD, testing, Docker, API security, monitoring and production support.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure software solutions for customers.
• Work in feature teams across the full software life cycle from design to deployment and operations.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts to optimize capability and delivery.
• Design, develop and test code, ensuring quality and scalable solutions.
• Contribute across requirements analysis, design, coding, testing and deployment.

Skills

Python backend

REST APIs

FastAPI

MongoDB

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

API security

Production support

Tools

Git

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge.

Day-to-day, you\'ll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority.

It\'s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career.

We\'re offering this role at associate level.

What you\'ll do

In your new role, you\'ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You\'ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams with responsibility for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you\'ll need

To take on this role, you\'ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

• At least five years\' hands-on Python backend development experience, building production-grade REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI
• Strong experience with MongoDB and AWS, including data modelling, cloud deployment, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting.
• Solid engineering practices across Git, CI/CD, testing, Docker, API security, monitoring, and production support, with strong ownership of delivery
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours
45

Job Posting Closing Date: 30/10/2026