Principal Engineer, Core Java, VP

Natwest Digitalx·Posted 1 week ago

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About the Role

Role Overview:
Join us as a Software Engineer to design, produce, test, and implement working software across the lifecycle of the system. Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role offered at the vice president level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in a permanent feature team to develop knowledge of aspects of the associated platform, liaising with principal engineers, architects, and key stakeholders.

• Apply Agile methods to software development, produce resilient software, deliver intentional architecture, and focus on automation of build, test, and deployment activities.

• Design and develop software with a focus on automation, using executable patterns.

Qualifications Required:

• 12+ years of hands-on coding experience in a senior or principal backend engineering role.

• Expert-level Java proficiency, including Core Java, multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning.

• Advanced experience with Spring Boot and the broader Spring ecosystem, designing and developing microservices.

• Strong experience in building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, messaging platforms, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Proven ability to modernize, refactor, and optimize backend services, along with troubleshooting skills in complex production environments. Role Overview:

Join us as a Software Engineer to design, produce, test, and implement working software across the lifecycle of the system. Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role offered at the vice president level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in a permanent feature team to develop knowledge of aspects of the associated platform, liaising with principal engineers, architects, and key stakeholders.

• Apply Agile methods to software development, produce resilient software, deliver intentional architecture, and focus on automation of build, test, and deployment activities.

• Design and develop software with a focus on automation, using executable patterns.

Qualifications Required:

• 12+ years of hands-on coding experience in a senior or principal backend engineering role.

• Expert-level Java proficiency, including Core Java, multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning.

• Advanced experience with Spring Boot and the broader Spring ecosystem, designing and developing microservices.

• Strong experience in building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, messaging platforms, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Proven ability to modernize, refactor, and optimize backend services, along with troubleshooting skills in complex production environments.

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Ideal Candidate

A backend architect who has spent 12+ years progressing from senior engineer to principal/staff level, with deep production experience modernizing legacy Java services into microservices architectures.

Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)

₹45 L – ₹75 L per year

Likely Interview Questions

1.Walk us through your most complex multithreading or concurrency issue in production—what was the root cause and how did you optimize for performance at scale?
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