Software Engineer, Java (Investment Banking), VP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland in Gurugram invites a Software Engineer with 10–12 years of Investment Banking engineering experience to join a permanent feature team. You’ll design, develop, test and implement software across the lifecycle and liaise with principal engineers and architects.

You’ll focus on agile software delivery, scalable architectures, automation of build, test and deployment, and collaboration with business teams to deliver pragmatic financial solutions.

Qualifications

• 10 to 12 years of experience in the Investment Banking domain, with strong hands-on expertise in modern technologies such as Java 21, Microservices architecture, Spring Boot, GCP, Terraform, and emerging AI/ML tools and frameworks
• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way

Responsibilities

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

Skills

Full stack software design

Java 21

Microservices

Spring Boot

GCP

Terraform

AI/ML tools

Automation & deployment

Security policies in finance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer

You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

We’re offering this role at vice president level

What you’ll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• 10 to 12 years of experience in the Investment Banking domain, with strong hands‑on expertise in modern technologies such as Java 21, Microservices architecture, Spring Boot, GCP, Terraform, and emerging AI/ML tools and frameworks
• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 04/09/2026