Golang Backend Engineer - FinTech Microservices

Lloyds Bank plc

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 77,000 - 96,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

30 days holiday

Wellbeing programmes

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Bank plc in London is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build elegant, scalable Golang microservices that power innovative financial products. You will collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions and to shape system design and architecture.

The role emphasizes engineering best practices, continuous improvement, and building a connected platform with secure, resilient systems.

Qualifications

Strong commercial experience developing backend applications in Golang.
Experience building and supporting microservices architectures.
Experience deploying and operating applications in containerised environments, ideally Kubernetes.
Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience working within agile development environments.
Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across the application stack, including network, server and database layers.
Experience building concurrent, distributed applications at scale.
Experience working with DevOps or SRE teams to support production environments.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
A passion for learning, continuous improvement and delivering high-quality software.

Responsibilities

Build elegant, performant Golang microservices powering financial products.
Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Contribute to system design and architecture; champion engineering best practices.
Help build a connected platform and enable data-driven insights; support scalable, resilient systems.