Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

R-00277872

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 : Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

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 : You’ll also be:

- 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.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

- Strong backend and cloud engineering expertise with 12+ years of experience in Java (Java 17, Spring Boot, Hibernate), AWS (EKS, networking), Oracle DB, cloud‑native architectures, APIs (Apigee/Tyk), and secure authentication (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS)- Engineering excellence and reliability leadership including TDD, CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), event‑driven systems (Kafka), JVM performance optimisation, SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), and robust observability using OpenTelemetry with Prometheus/Grafana- Architecture and collaboration skills to own end‑to‑end system lifecycle, define technical roadmaps, align platforms with business goals, drive continuous improvement through metrics, and support React JS-based front‑end integration
- 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 easy way

Welcome to our Chennai hub : 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

📌 Software Engineer, Vp (Chennai)
🏢 National Westminster Bank
📍 Chennai