Lead Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer – Everyday Banking Platform

SALARY: £100,657 - £118,420

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: [Full-time]

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

About this opportunity…

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels.

About us…

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 do…

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.

• Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.

• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.

• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What we’re looking for…

• A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices and modern toolsets like Kubernetes and Jenkins

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.

• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

• You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD

What you’ll get to learn… (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP

• Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey.