Closing date for applications: 11/09/2026
Location Bristol, United Kingdom
Salary £46,113 – £65,100
Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time
Mostly Remote
You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.
Experienced
This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.
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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Software Engineer, Frontend
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Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers
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The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
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Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity
What you'll do
You’ll be joining our Digital domain, where our digital strategy is driving the delivery of a digital ecosystem that improves the customer experience, enables our colleagues to better serve our customers, and achieves the growth and revenue goals of our business.
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:
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Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
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Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
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Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
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Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
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Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you'll need
To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You'll have experience with JavaScript, React and Webpack Module Federation.
You’ll also need:
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Experience with Jest and Cypress test suites, with experience creating component and visual tests
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Experience working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
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Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets
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Experience using AI tools for development such as using IDE integrations, agent skills and MCP servers
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Experience of DevOps and Agile methodologies and associated toolsets
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A proven ability to solve highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
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Experience of implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Your benefits breakdown
Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.
Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.
Tap each segment for details.
Your pay package
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Your leave allowance
28 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.
3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.
3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.
Total rewards package
Our tech stack
Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
Front end
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS
Back end
- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics
DevOps
- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform
Data
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake