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Rbs

Principal Engineer, VP

Bengaluru · Chennai

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Executive
Country
IN
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
29 Sept 2026

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the posting

Join us as a Principal Engineer

  • This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
  • You’ll be playing a major role in the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
  • You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
  • We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust. You’ll be defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.

You’ll also be:

  • Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
  • Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
  • Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
  • Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with fifteen years of e xtensive experience in software engineering roles, with strong expertise in distributed systems and real‑time, high‑throughput, low‑latency platforms . We’d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

  • Deep hands‑on knowledge of microservices, event‑driven patterns, cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern API frameworks
  • Proven delivery experience in large‑scale platform engineering or architectural leadership roles
  • Strong understanding of performance engineering, resilience patterns, observability, and operational excellence
  • Ability to influence at senior levels and lead without formal authority

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

03/10/2026

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