At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop user interfaces while collaborating with a dynamic team.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional development.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of continuous learning and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make an impact by creating engaging user experiences with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience in full stack development, especially with React and mobile applications.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Join us as a UI Software Engineer. This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a UI 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.
- 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.
- Extensive experience designing and developing modern, responsive, accessible user interfaces using React and related front-end technologies, with a strong focus on usability, performance, and customer experience.
- Hands-on experience building and supporting mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms, delivering intuitive and engaging user journeys.
- Strong experience working with wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, user journeys, and interaction flows, collaborating closely with UX/UI designers, product owners, and business stakeholders to influence product and design decisions.
- Good full-stack engineering experience, including developing Java-based microservices using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ.
- Experience applying test-driven development (TDD), automated testing frameworks, unit testing, mocking and stubbing techniques, alongside Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and associated toolsets.
- A growth mindset with a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply new technologies, tools, and engineering practices, contributing wherever needed across the technology stack to deliver customer value, with a focus on continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
UI Software Engineer employer: NatWest Group
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