Golang Backend Engineer – Hybrid Fintech Microservices

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus subject to Group perf

Share schemes including free shares

Wellbeing initiatives

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build Golang microservices powering innovative financial products. You will collaborate with product, engineering and business teams, contribute to system design, and champion best practices to deliver scalable, secure software.

Join with strong experience in backend development, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, contributing to data-driven insights and resilient platforms.

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 Golang microservices that power financial products and services.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Contribute to system design and architecture and champion engineering best practice.
• Help continuously improve development processes and enable scalable, resilient systems.

Skills

Golang backend

Microservices

Kubernetes

Databases

Agile

DevOps

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build Golang microservices powering innovative financial products. You will collaborate with product, engineering and business teams, contribute to system design, and champion best practices to deliver scalable, secure software.

Join with strong experience in backend development, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, contributing to data-driven insights and resilient platforms.