Software Engineer, AVP (Java, Kafka, AWS)

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

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:

• At least eight years of experience with Java, Microservices, Spring boot
• Working knowledge on NoSQL database- preferably MongoDB
• 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
• 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