Principal Engineer, Digital Assistant

Closing date for applications: 27/05/2026

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

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.

Managerial / Technical Lead

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
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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
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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 Principal Engineer, Digital Assistant

• This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment


• With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank


• As well as developing your technical talents, you'll have the opportunity to build project and leadership skills which will open up a range of exciting career options

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non\-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, and will develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams.

You’ll also gain a distinguished leadership status in the software engineering community as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities.

You’ll also be:

• Designing and developing high performance and high availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies


• Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose


• Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders


• Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank


• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.

Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of leading software development teams whilst introducing and executing technical strategies


• The ability to use industry recognised frameworks and development tooling


• Knowledge and proficiency in designing full stack software and architecture solutions, preferable Chat or AI based


• Experience in CI/CD pipelines, hosting on prem and cloud platforms including AWS and IBM Cloud


• Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own using Python and NodeJS

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.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

80% Base pay This is the part your your pay package that you take home every month.

10% Pension funding 10% of your salary goes towards your pension every month.

10% Benefit funding 10% of your salary goes towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 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

Welcome to our Spinningfields hub
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Spinningfields is Manchester’s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.

Key facts:

• Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank


• Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city


• Opened in 2023

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

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