NatWest Group
Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £55,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong full-stack experience in software design and implementation, including using programming languages to solve complex problems
- Ability to analyse, capture and validate complex requirements against business and systems requirements
- Experience leading the implementation of programming best practices, particularly in scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
- Strong experience with microservices, observability and cloud technology, specifically AWS
- Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Boot and Docker
- Collaboration skills and the ability to work with business teams to develop pragmatic solutions
- Experience with information security policies and practices in the financial sector
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts simply
- Design, produce, test and implement working software across the system lifecycle
- Develop knowledge of the platform across business, applications, data and infrastructure
- Liaise with principal engineers, domain architects and other stakeholders to understand the platform and how it supports business objectives
- Apply Agile methods to develop software from the backlog
- Produce resilient, long-lived software and adapt it to future needs
- Deliver intentional architecture and develop emergent designs through ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Design and develop software with a focus on automating build, test and deployment activities
- Apply knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes and cloud technologies
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- microservices
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Join us as a Senior Java Software Engineer in a permanent feature team. This is a full-time role with 35 hours per week, based in Manchester, with hybrid working that includes at least one day each week in our Manchester office and some work from home. The job posting closing date is 25 September 2026.
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NatWest Group
Manchester
IT
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£72,500
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 3% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks