Software Engineer

NatWest
Northwood
4 days ago
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Join us as a Software Engineer

  • This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
  • With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
  • You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

  • Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
  • Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
  • Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
  • Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas
  • Lead the observability strategy, defining and implementing best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting across our platforms

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. 

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

  • Proven experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), observability or performance engineering
  • Strong expertise in using monitoring, logging and tracking tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk or ELK
  • Hands on experience creating real time dashboards for infrastructure, application performance and business insights
  • A deep understanding of incident response, root cause analysis and performance tuning
  • Hands on experience with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets and alerting strategies
  • Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python, Bash or Go
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerised applications such as AWS, GCP or Azure

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