NatWest Group

UI Software Engineer

NatWest Group  •  Edinburgh, GB (Hybrid)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

Join us as a UI Software Engineer

  • This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a UI 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 with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

  • Extensive experience designing and developing modern, responsive, accessible user interfaces using React and related front-end technologies, with a strong focus on usability, performance, and customer experience
  • Hands-on experience building and supporting mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms, delivering intuitive and engaging user journeys
  • Strong experience working with wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, user journeys, and interaction flows, collaborating closely with UX/UI designers, product owners, and business stakeholders to influence product and design decisions
  • Good full-stack engineering experience, including developing Java-based microservices using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ
  • Experience applying test-driven development (TDD), automated testing frameworks, unit testing, mocking and stubbing techniques, alongside Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and associated toolsets
  • A growth mindset with a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply new technologies, tools, and engineering practices, contributing wherever needed across the technology stack to deliver customer value, with a focus on continuous improvement and engineering excellence

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

20/08/2026Ways 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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