Senior Golang Developer and Devops Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Golang Developer and Devops Engineer

SALARY: From £68,202 dependent on experience and location

LOCATION: London, Leeds or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites noted above.

At Lloyds Banking Group we’re embracing change and creating a simpler, more responsive, digitally led organisation. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future.

Our colleagues are at the heart of our digital transformation, adopting progressive technologies and agile practices to support us on our journey to build the bank of the future. With their help, we’re serving more than 16 million online customers and transforming the way Britain banks.

About this opportunity 

We are excited to announce an exceptional opportunity for a Senior Golang developer with hands-on DevOps and Terraform expertise at Lloyds Banking Group. As a member of our Platform Engineering CoE team, you will be at the forefront of our Devops transformation, playing a vital role in integrating Modern Workplace tools and services (M365 and others) with Terraform to streamline operations and automate our SaaS tools with unparalleled efficiency. This position offers a unique chance to join a pioneering team and contribute to the sustained growth and sophistication of our Modern Workplace tools and services.

Specific activities will include:

• Development of new Terraform providers for Modern Workplace tools

• Maintain existing products including providers, http clients and SDK's

• Spearhead the diversification of our product offerings with innovative Terraform providers for essential M365 services such as Intune and W365

• Champion the shift towards an 'Everything as Code' paradigm, providing training and mentorship to our Modern Workplace teams

• Encourage an environment that promotes continuous learning to enhance our collective expertise across our directorate.

• Participate in Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to actively promote the DevOps brand in LBG.

• Deliver business outcomes working in Jira and Confluence

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience in Go software development and a thorough understanding of Terraform's foundational principles

• Strong proficiency in Golang, including a deep understanding of its syntax, advanced features, and standard library

• Experience with HTTP services, SDK development, and orchestration technologies like Docker.

• Ability to write concurrent programs in Go and a strong understanding of threading, synchronization, and non-blocking I/O

• Experience in writing unit and integration tests in Go, using tools like testify

• Proficiency in working with internal server storage modules within the Go ecosystem

• Familiarity with code versioning tools, and can build continuous integration and deployment workflows e.g GHA

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.