Software Engineer, Full Stack

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.
Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Software Engineer, Full Stack

• 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 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 to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You'll bring strong experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments; You'll have experience building and operating services using Spring Boot in cloud native environments, with automation as a core engineering principle. You'll also bring front end experience using React, alongside familiarity with Node.js and Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.
You'll be comfortable designing and delivering robust, scalable and resilient systems, contributing to engineering standards and practices across the platform. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial.
You'll also need:

• The ability to coach and mentor, with a passion for supporting and developing more junior colleagues
• Experience building modern, responsive UIs with React and TypeScript, including use of shared component libraries and feature flags to support continuous delivery and progressive rollout
• Strong understanding of accessibility and performance, with experience optimising across the stack such as React rendering patterns, API design, and frontend performance
• Experience designing and building BFF services using Node.js such as Next.js, with a solid grounding in API and microservice design patterns and familiarity with Kafka and event driven architectures is advantageous
• Experience working in empowered, autonomous teams where engineering excellence is aligned to product outcomes