NatWest Group

Back End Engineer

NatWest Group  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  1 hour ago
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Job Description

Join us as a Back End Engineer

  • You’ll work alongside a collaborative team building new, resilient financial technology products that deliver tangible impact for small business owners.
  • In this role, you’ll deepen your backend expertise, mentor team members, and help steer our engineering practices as our platform scales.
  • Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role.

What you'll do

You’ll join one of the core cross-functional mission teams to build and develop Mettle. We will look to you to develop clean, elegant and reusable code that is well-tested and easy to maintain and extend.

You’ll also:

  • Work with stakeholders across the business to drive the direction of Mettle Engineering and put the long-term interests of customers at the heart of key decisions
  • Collaborate across our backend chapter to uphold standards, best practices and to promote innovation
  • Work collaboratively with the team to resolve technical issues
  • Support and oversee junior engineers and act as a subject matter expert

The skills you'll need

You’ll need 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 3+ years in Core Java. Experience of working in Hybrid teams will be beneficial.

You’ll also need experience of:

  • Container technologies (Kubernetes / Docker)
  • Cloud Computing (in particular AWS)
  • Working with message-driven architectures / Kafka / event sourcing
  • Translating business objectives into architectural designs

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

29/10/2026

Ways of Working:Hybrid

NatWest Group

About NatWest Group

We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.

As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.

Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.

One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.

We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Edinburgh, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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