Software Engineer, Engineering Platforms Team in Midlothian

Join our Engineering Platforms team which delivers a modern software development tools chain for engineers across the bank, protecting them from the complexities of developing and delivering applications within NatWest Group. 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 product 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.
• 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:

• Strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including the ability to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems.
• Capability of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of designing scalable, maintainable, extensible systems by applying best practices in software architecture.
• Skilled at leveraging language-specific strengths across multiple languages (Java, Python, JavaScript) for designing solutions, reviewing clean code, optimising testability and performance.
• Pro-actively identify and resolve inefficiencies autonomously, driving process optimisation and automation initiatives without explicit instruction.
• Demonstrated experience with information security policies, managing vulnerabilities and practices specific to the financial sector, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of advancements in Artificial Intelligence, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and related tooling, understanding their impact on software development workflows and leveraging these insights to enhance productivity and innovation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language for diverse audiences.

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 10/08/2026

Ways of Working: Remote First

Location: Edinburgh

Type: Full time