Software Engineer, Full Stack

Closing date for applications: 03/07/2026

Location London, United Kingdom

Salary £75,520 – £113,280

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

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, Full Stack

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 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.

You’ll also be:

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 to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You’ll bring strong experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments; You’ll have experience building and operating services using Spring Boot in cloud native environments, with automation as a core engineering principle. You’ll also bring front‑end experience using React, alongside familiarity with Node.js and Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.

You’ll be comfortable designing and delivering robust, scalable and resilient systems, contributing to engineering standards and practices across the platform. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial.

You'll also need:

The ability to coach and mentor, with a passion for supporting and developing more junior colleagues

Experience building modern, responsive UIs with React and TypeScript, including use of shared component libraries and feature flags to support continuous delivery and progressive rollout

Strong understanding of accessibility and performance, with experience optimising across the stack such as React rendering patterns, API design, and frontend performance

Experience designing and building BFF services using Node.js such as Next.js, with a solid grounding in API and microservice design patterns and familiarity with Kafka and event driven architectures is advantageous

Experience working in empowered, autonomous teams where engineering excellence is aligned to product outcomes

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.

Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

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Your leave allowance

30 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 Bishopsgate hub

Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work.

Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.

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

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