Develop and maintain backend services within a feature team, designing, testing, deploying and operating high-quality, scalable microservices/APIs using cloud-native toolchains. Collaborate across architects, engineers and analysts through full software lifecycle while applying DevOps practices and performance best practices.
Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
- Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
- It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
- We're offering this role at associate level
In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
You’ll also be:
- Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality 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 our software engineering capability
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
- Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.
You’ll also need:
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience in backend of working with development, with strong proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, and building scalable microservices / APIs.
- Solid experience with Docker for containerization and understanding of container‑based development workflows.
- Proficient in writing automated tests using JUnit or similar testing frameworks, with a strong focus on code quality and maintainability.
- Experience working with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, including data modelling and query optimization.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab or GitHub, and exposure to deploying services into AWS Kubernetes (EKS) environments using Helm charts.
- Practical exposure to cloud-native development, preferably on AWS, knowledge of Kafka and/or experience in the Payments domain is a strong advantage
- Experience of working in Agile environments with a good understanding of DevOps practices and associated toolsets.
- A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
- Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
28/07/2026NatWest Group Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
Kosmo One, Plot No 14 3rd Main Road, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600 058
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