Software Engineer, Frontend

Closing date for applications: 03/07/2026

Location London, United Kingdom

Salary £64,728 – £91,380

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.

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, Frontend

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 to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You’ll bring experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments. You’ll have experience building user interfaces using React and working within cloud native environments, with an appreciation for automation as a core engineering principle.

You’ll be comfortable contributing to the development of robust and reliable software, working as part of a team to deliver high quality frontend experiences. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial

You'll also need:

Experience building responsive user interfaces using React and TypeScript, including working with shared component libraries and using feature flags to support safe and incremental releases

Awareness of accessibility and performance considerations, with some experience of applying WCAG standards and optimising frontend performance such as rendering patterns, lazy loading and state management

Experience or exposure to building Backend for Frontend (BFF) services using Node.js such as Next.js, with an understanding of API and microservice design principles

The ability to work effectively in a team that values autonomy and empowerment, with a focus on delivering quality outcomes

Willingness to learn and develop, including supporting and learning from others within the team

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

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 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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