Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & Innovation

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & Innovation

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: 35 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.

About this opportunity

This role sits in our Emerging Tech & Innovation team, we want to create a future where customers choose Lloyds because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better.

This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and value creation!

We’re looking for ‘full-stack’ Software Engineers, to join our Engineering Innovation team.

This team is dynamic, versatile and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, that could be deployed at scale across the organisation. Joining our team, you’ll have opportunities to participate in internal Hackathons, coding challenges and bi-weekly platform meetings and be a member of a great engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

What will I be doing? (The exciting bit!)

• Responsible for the design, build and test of engineering innovation experiments. You’ll be directly responsible for writing and maintaining code base, and as such you’ll have deep expertise in modern 'full-stack' programming languages and technologies

• Demonstrate continuous personal development in new & emerging programming languages and technologies

• Conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies. As well as DBT and code execution, you will also be responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate user documentation

• Collaborate closely with internal customers across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, to ensure all our experiments maintain standards of engineering excellence, and alignment to strategic technology direction.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• As a software engineer, you’ll have a deep working experience across a range of ‘full-stack’ programming languages. The term ‘full-stack’ is broad and ever-changing. As such, it is not expected that you’ll have all the technical skills listed below, however, you should be able to demonstrate you possess a range of these, at a proficient level

• Front-end, e.g., Javascript/JS Frameworks, HTML/CSS

• Mid-tier, e.g., API, ReST, Web Server, SSO, IAM

• Server-side & database, e.g., Java, C#, GoLang, Node.JS, Python, SQL Server, Cockroach, MongoDB

• Mobile, e.g., Swift, Android

• Core cloud platforms, e.g., Google, Azure, AWS

• DevOps & CICD, e.g., Jenkins, Urban Code, Atlassian, GitHub, MS Team Foundation Server, SonarQube, Kubernetes

• Practical knowledge on software development processes

• Engineering experience working within an Agile framework

• Systems design thinking and solution architecture

• Practical experience creating user documentation

• Collaboration; working effectively alongside engineering teams, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and partners; you can hold productive communications to ensure experiments are clearly scoped and driven

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 underrepresented 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

• 30 days’ holiday, 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.