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Software Engineer, UI Developer

NatWest Group

Office

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Full Time

Join us as a Software Engineer, UI Developer

  • 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
  • You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an advertised office or hub minimum two days per week

    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:

    • Extensive experience with development and testing tools, including bug tracking systems like Jira, and collaborative platforms such as Confluence wikis
    • Experience in  primary skill set in UI development, with strong experience in modern JavaScript frameworks such as React.js or Angular, and a solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
    • Experience in building responsive, accessible, and high-performance web applications that integrate with backend microservices and APIs
    • Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and state management tools such as Redux, Context API to ensure consistency and scalability across the UI
    • Exposure to automated UI testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright, and a strong focus on testability, code quality, and user experience
    • 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

    Hours

    35

    Job Posting Closing Date:

    13/08/2025

    Ways of Working:Hybrid

    Software Engineer, UI Developer

    Office

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Full Time

    August 8, 2025

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    NatWest Group

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