Join us as a Principal Engineer You ll drive development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into a suitable design As well managing the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams you ll lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events conferences and other activities By leading the planning specifying development and deployment of high performance robust and resilient systems you ll ensure they follow excellent architectural and engineering principles and are fit for purpose We re offering this role at vice president level What you ll do As a Principal Engineer you ll oversee the productivity of the software engineering teams and you ll be responsible for the consistent use of shared platform components and technologies Leading engagements with senior stakeholders you ll explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features Other responsibilities will include Monitoring technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality scalability and performance and providing progress updates to stakeholders Delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms applications and services for the organisation Designing and develop high-volume high-performance high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies and designing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the organisation Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality The skills you ll need You ll need at least 15 years of experience in software engineering software design or database design and architecture and significant experience developing software in an SOA or micro-services paradigm Along with a background in leading software development teams introducing and executing technical strategies you ll have development experience in one or more programming languages We ll also be looking for Experience of Java Microservices and Cloud technologies An excellent understanding of building scalable and maintainable solutions Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks as well as mocking stubbing and unit testing tools Knowledge of working with code repositories bug tracking tools and wikis A background in designing or implementing APIs and an-depth knowledge of large scale database and NoSQL design and optimisation Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date 28 09 2025

📌 Principal Engineer, Vp (Gurugram)
🏢 NatWest Group
📍 Gurugram