IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

NatWest Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Senior Software Engineer role, you’ll build and maintain services used by engineering squads and own end-to-end outcomes with autonomy. You’ll engage with stakeholders, prioritise by impact, and navigate ambiguity within aKanban-driven environment. A key focus is enabling AI adoption through productivity tooling and cross-squad collaboration. You’ll support engineers on in-hours rotations, tackling urgent issues with strong debugging and patience. This role offers impact across infrastructure, CI/CD, and AI initiatives in a high-autonomy setting.

Responsibilities
  • Engage with stakeholders to prioritise work based on impact and manage ambiguity
  • Collaborate across squads to unblock and support engineering delivery
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Golden Paths, and AI productivity tooling
  • Drive AI adoption initiatives across the business
  • Provide in-hours on-call support for engineers, addressing pipelines, deployments, or novel issues
  • Mentor peers, promote collaboration over hierarchy, and take ownership from problem to outcome
Key requirements
  • Sound technical decision-making with balance between quality and pragmatism
  • Ownership mindset with proactive improvement of software delivery
  • Strong collaboration skills; comfortable pairing, mobbing and mentoring
  • Comfort with ambiguity and ability to shape solutions with stakeholders
  • Technical flexibility across infrastructure, platform tooling, CI/CD, and languages (Java, Go, Python, JavaScript)
  • Customer-focused mindset and willingness to help squads during in-hours support
  • Genuine interest in AI tooling and development productivity improvements
  • collaboration
  • mentoring
  • problem-solving with others
  • CI/CD
  • infrastructure
  • platform tooling

Reference: WJ-747_30182512

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