Software Engineer, AVP (Java, Kafka, AWS)

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Software Engineer at AVP level in Bengaluru to design and deliver secure, high-performance solutions within a feature team. You will work across the full lifecycle, engaging with engineers, architects and analysts to produce robust software and tooling.

We expect 6+ years of experience in Java, microservices, Spring Boot, and related technologies like Kafka, CI/CD, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Six years of IT experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on with Java, microservices, and cloud-based platforms.
• Experience building scalable, real-time data processing and testing.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure software within a feature team.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
• Design, test and implement code from requirements through deployment.
• Own full lifecycle delivery from development to maintenance or decommissioning.
• Improve software engineering capability through collaboration and best practices.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Spring Boot

Kafka

JUnit

CI/CD

AWS

DevOps

Agile

Testing

MongoDB & PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab

PCF

VCS tools

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 vice president 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 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 need to have an experience of 6 years and above in the below mentioned skills

• Minimum of six years of experience with Java, Microservices, Spring boot
• Working knowledge on databases- preferably MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Proficient in Kafka. Implement and maintain Kafka based data streaming solutions for real time data processing
• Proficient in writing and executing tests using JUnit for Java applications , ensuring high code coverage and reliability
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, Gitlab Shared runners
• Strong experience with AWS, PCF, PaaS.
• Experience of working with development & testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience in multiple programming languages or Low Code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps, Testing and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• Experience with containerised deployment using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date: 01/09/2026