Closing date for applications: 08/06/2026
Location Chennai, India
Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time
\#R\-00279186
- *Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X**
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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**
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This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.
Join us as a Software Engineer
- 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
- We're offering this role at vice president level
- *What you'll do**
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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**
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We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate
- At least 15 years of experience in container orchestration and cloud\-native environments, including Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes, combined with strong expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and service mesh technologies like Istio
- Proficient in end\-to\-end application development and deployment, with skills in PostgreSQL database optimization, CI/CD automation, configuration management, and programming using Java, Python, and Helm Charts for Kubernetes packaging and deployment
- Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
- 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
- Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
- *Welcome to our Chennai hub**
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Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.
### **Key facts:**
- Surrounded by 10 acres
- Space for 3,600 colleagues
- Opened in 2009
### **Our tech stack**
Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
### **Front end**
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS
### **Back end**
- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics
### **DevOps**
- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform
### **Data**
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake