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Software Engineer, Backend
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Join us as a Software Engineer, Backend
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.
What you'll do
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll lead the technical delivery of a software engineering team, 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:
- Supervising solution design options and explaining the pros and cons to key stakeholders for appropriate decision making
- Leading estimation activities, ensuring delivery plans reflect technical complexity, maintainability, and supportability requirements
- 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
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The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience of working in banking or financial services, alongside strong hands-on experience developing and delivering solutions using modern Java technologies. You’ll also need experience designing and developing microservices and distributed systems, with a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles.
You'll bring expertise working with relational databases, ideally Oracle or PostgreSQL, alongside experience building cloud-based solutions in AWS.
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- 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
- Exposure to AI technologies such as LLMs, machine learning, or agentic systems, alongside experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
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Familiarity with Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Agile delivery practices would also be beneficial.
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date
29/09/2026
Ways of Working
Remote First
Please contact Viviana.Ingham@natwest.com if you have any queries on the role.
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