Wow Software Engineer

Role Overview

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

Responsibilities

• Engineering and maintaining innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust solutions.
• Working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts, and tools.
• Liaising with other engineers, architects, and business analysts across the platform.
• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business.
• Working in permanent teams 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 working software solutions.
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment, and operations.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on software development experience in building, enhancing, and delivering enterprise-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience with AI-driven software engineering including Prompt Engineering, MCP, AI agent architectures, RAG and RESTful API integration.
• Strong experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable microservices and distributed applications using Java/J2EE and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Solid understanding of Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Agile practices, containerization, observability, automated testing, and CI/CD toolchains.
• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.

Skills

• Java
• Python
• AWS
• ReactJS
• PostgreSQL