Software Engineer, AVP

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Software Engineer in Chennai to design and maintain high-performance, secure software. You will work in a feature team, collaborating with engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You will contribute to the full life cycle from development to deployment and operations, bringing strong coding skills in Java/Node.js/Python and hands-on AWS experience. This is a senior-level role with enterprise-scale impact.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and customer support understanding.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure solutions.
• Work in a feature team, build software, scripts and tools, liaise with engineers, architects, and analysts.
• Produce complex, high-quality software rapidly to add business value.
• Work in permanent teams responsible for full life cycle from development to maintenance or decommissioning.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.
• Design, produce, test and implement working code.
• Participate in requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Articulate thoughts

Tools

AWS hands-on (IAC/EKS or ECS)

AI coding assistants (Kiro/Claude)

Job description

• 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 associoate vice president level

Join us as a Software Engineer

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.

You’ll Also Be

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible 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

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll Also Need

• Experience of Good aptitude (problem solving skills)
• Experience in AWS hands-on (IAC/EKS or ECS/General enterprise, AWS architecture knowledge skills to evidence)
• Hands-on expert knowledge of any one programming language (JAVA 21 or Nodejs or Python) and ability to effectively use AI coding assistants with human in the loop (Kiro/ClaudeD etc agentic IDEs)
• Proactive/self-driven behaviours with ability to articulate thoughts