WoW - Software Engineer, AVP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Software Engineer at AVP level to tackle challenging, customer-facing software projects.

The role focuses on building high-performance, secure systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams across the platform.

You will contribute to full lifecycle delivery, mentor teammates, and help elevate engineering standards within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java microservices, Kafka and scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and modern testing approaches.
• Understanding of Agile software delivery and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure software that serves customer needs.
• Work in a feature team across full lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and business analysts across platforms.
• Produce complex, high-quality software rapidly with attention to value addition.
• Support lifecycle management from development through maintenance or decommissioning.

Skills

Java microservices

Kafka

DevOps

Agile methodology

Automation & performance

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.

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 working with Java microservices, Kafka with 8+ years
• Experience in open banking domain and regulatory
• Experience of DevOps, Testing and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• 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

01/09/2026