Join us as a Principal Engineer
- This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
- With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
- You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
What you'll do
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be leading technical direction for BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) organisation (consisting of multiple missions & teams), developing and driving best practices and enable teams to solve their hardest problems.You'll work alongside technology leadership to drive the setting and adoption of engineering standards and promote innovation.
You’ll also:
- Work with customer-focused agile missions and collaborate with product managers, senior engineering managers, architects and engineers to define the next iteration of NatWest Boxed
- Lead the design of scalable, highly available digital services, aligned to business or programme goals
- Enable our teams to leverage industry best practice and ship value to customers at pace
- Work collaboratively across the business to resolve technical issues
- Work with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of engineering at NatWest Boxed and put the long-term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions
- Provide leadership to Staff engineers & architects to ensure technical priorities are clear and effectively communicated
The skills you'll need
You’ll come with experience working on high-scale software systems in Financial Services and at least two years in a Staff Engineer role.
You’ll also need:
- A track-record of proactively identifying and solving complex business problems
- Technical leadership experience of a mission with multiple agile teams
- The ability to effectively deliver value when faced with ambiguous problems
- The ability to act as a subject matter expert and communicate with clarity and empathy to both technical and non-technical audiences
- An understanding how to translate business objectives into data driven insights that can then be leveraged by a team to produce better outcomes
- Expert-level practical and theoretical knowledge of back-end development, front-end development and substantial experience of message-driven architectures
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
02/07/2026
Ways of Working:Remote First
