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# Software Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** National Westminster Bank
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £64,728.0 - £91,380.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Continuous Delivery, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Management of Software Versions, Cloud Platform System, Spring-boot, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a66146fe2674b39c

## About the Role

We're looking for someone to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You'll bring experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments. You'll have experience building and operating backend services in cloud native environments, using technologies such as Spring Boot, with an understanding of automation as a core engineering principle.

You'll be comfortable contributing to the development of reliable and resilient systems, working as part of a team to deliver high quality API based services. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial

You'll also need:

 * Experience building backend services and APIs, with an understanding of RESTful design principles such as versioning, monitoring, and basic observability
 * Some exposure to distributed systems and event-driven architectures such as Kafka would be beneficial
 * Ability to work effectively in a team that values autonomy and empowerment, with a focus on delivering quality outcomes
 * Experience or exposure to working in cloud native, distributed environments, with an awareness of resilience and failure handling concepts

## Description

* This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
 * Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
 * It's a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

In your new role, you'll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, 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 software solutions
 * Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations


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