Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure software within a feature team across the full lifecycle. Design, produce, test, deploy and operate software, collaborate with architects and analysts, and build solutions leveraging cloud, DevOps, and generative AI/ML technologies to deliver business value.
Join us as a Software Engineer, AI
- This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer, AI 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
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
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 also need:
- Experience of working with multiple programming languages including Python and Web Development, such as NodeJS
- Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, along with Dev Ops and CI/CD
- Experience of problem solving, building to requirements and testing for both production and fast innovative proof of concepts
- Expertise in Data Science, Generative AI, ML and LLMs, having RAG and Agentic experience would be beneficial
- Proficient in implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
26/07/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstNatWest Group Edinburgh, Scotland Office
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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