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
The skills you'll need
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, introducing and executing technical strategies
Knowledge of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
A background in designing or implementing APIs
Demonstrable experience in working with Java and related technologies such as Spring Boot, micro services, Kafka
Experience working in AWS cloud, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
Experience in working with MongoDB/NOSQL databases
Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
17/06/2026
Additional Information
Join us as a Principal Engineer
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
We're offering this role at vice president level
Royal Bank Of Scotland · Bengaluru, India