Software Engineer

Natwest, South Gyle, City of Edinburgh

Software Engineer

Salary Not Specified

Natwest, South Gyle, City of Edinburgh

  • Full time
  • Permanent

Posted today, 9 Jan | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 22822_R-00247895-OTHLOC-GBR-5FEDI034

Full Job Description

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

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 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. You’ll also need production experience using React, GraphQL, TypeScript, Node.JS, Jest/Vitest, MySQL, serverless functions and NPM.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

  • Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery tooling including GitHub actions and Terraform
  • Production experience with Amazon Web Services, single page and progressive web apps and monorepo architectures
  • 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