WoW - Software Engineer, AVP

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

• In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• We’ll look to you to design and engineer software focusing on the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level
  
  
  

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer, you’ll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using 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:

• 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 have experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking or stubbing and unit testing tools. It’ll be ideal if you have a background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis as well as experience of designing
• Experience in MS SQL
• Experience in DML, DDL, DCL, TCL, DQL statements
• Knowledge of relational, in-memory, distributed and NoSQL databases
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance