Go Backend Tech Lead — Scalable Microservices & Platform

Lloyds Bank plc; Greater London, West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Flexible benefits

30 days holiday

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Golang Lead Engineer to drive design, build, release, and support of backend services, shaping the Group's mobile security core and broader backend capabilities. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership across delivery teams.

You will mentor engineers, champion automation and secure coding, lead architectural decisions, and partner with Product Owners, Architects and SREs to deliver scalable, observable services in a

Qualifications

• Extensive backend Go development and production experience.
• Designing and delivering microservices and APIs.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Experience with container orchestration and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, release and support of complex backend services and shared platform capabilities.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, patterns and best practices.
• Build resilient, observable and secure services for production environments.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, SREs and Security specialists.
• Mentor engineers, support capability growth and contribute to engineering communities.

Skills

Go

Backend architecture

Microservices

DevOps

Leadership

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Security and reliability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Golang Lead Engineer to drive design, build, release, and support of backend services, shaping the Group's mobile security core and broader backend capabilities. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership across delivery teams.

You will mentor engineers, champion automation and secure coding, lead architectural decisions, and partner with Product Owners, Architects and SREs to deliver scalable, observable services in a