Software Engineer

Closing date for applications: 08/07/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Flexible Schedule Available

This role is open to discussion on flexible scheduling such as part-time, compressed hours, or job share options.

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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 India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

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 build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority

It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career

We're offering this role at senior analyst level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, 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 code

Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need:

Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis

Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets

Experience of DevOps, Testing and Agile methodology 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

Welcome to our Chennai hub

Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.

Key facts:

Surrounded by 10 acres

Space for 3,600 colleagues

Opened in 2009

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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