Software Engineer

Closing date for applications: 14/10/2026

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.

Experienced

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

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
• What you'll do

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
• The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience developing modern web applications and contributing to the delivery of high-quality software solutions. You'll be comfortable working as part of an Agile team, translating requirements into effective technical outcomes and collaborating with engineers, designers and stakeholders to deliver great user experiences.

You'll bring a practical approach to software engineering, contributing across the development lifecycle while supporting continuous improvement, quality and performance. You'll also be keen to learn, share knowledge and help improve the ways of working within your team.

You'll also demonstrate

• Experience developing front-end applications using JavaScript (ES6+), React, HTML5 and CSS3
• Knowledge of responsive design, web accessibility, testing practices and application performance optimisation
• Working with Git, GitLab CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
• Exposure to Agile delivery, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and backlog refinement
• An understanding of front-end architecture, state management tools, deployment automation and cloud-hosted applications
• The ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, work from Figma designs, troubleshoot issues and contribute to engineering best practice
• Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

### Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

### Your leave allowance

28 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

### Total rewards package

Welcome to our Gogarburn hub

• Set in large grounds including beautiful woodland, Gogarburn offers a conference centre, a business school with hotel bedrooms, a restaurant, relaxing zen gardens, onsite parking, and excellent transport links.
• ### Key facts:
• Surrounded by 85 acres of woodland
• Our carparks provide electric vehicle charging
• Opened in 2005
• ### Our tech stack
• Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
• ### Front end
• JavaScript
• ReactJS
• AngularJS
• ### Back end
• Python
• Java
• Microsoft Dynamics
• ### DevOps
• AWS
• GitLab
• Google Cloud Platform
• ### Data
• Kafka
• Hadoop
• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake