Software Engineer

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NatWest's vision is to use the best technology to meet the constantly evolving needs of their customers. With a broad spectrum of technology at their fingertips, they are working together to be at the forefront of innovation. But they know that technology alone isn't the answer; it's the people behind the technology who have the power to transform.

Job description

In your new role, you'll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions

We'll look to you to design and engineer software focusing on the customer or user experience as the primary objective

It's a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business

They're offering this role at associate vice president level.

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking.

You'll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You'll also be:

Producing high quality software which adds value to the business

Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning

Collaborating to optimise their software engineering capability

Designing, producing, testing and implementing their working code

Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You'll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports their customers. You'll also have experience of Java and web development. It'll be ideal if you have knowledge of Avaloq ICE.

You'll also need:

Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis as well as experience of designing and implementing APIs

Coding experience in multiple programming languages

Experience of Pl/sql. unix and windows administration

Knowledge of relational, in-memory, distributed and Postgres databases

Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance