Golang Lead Engineer - Scale Secure Backend Systems

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Golang Lead Engineer in Bristol to lead backend service development and delivery. You will balance hands-on Go development with technical leadership, shaping scalable, secure services and deployment pipelines while collaborating with product owners and security specialists in a hybrid working model.

The role emphasizes mentoring, engineering excellence, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable backend capabilities within a regulated financial services

Qualifications

• Strong Software Engineering expertise with Go and production backend services.
• Experience designing and delivering microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong DevOps and operational engineering capability, including CI/CD, automated testing, release practices and production support.
• Experience building and operating containerised services, with knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and modern cloud deployment approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, release and support of complex backend services and shared platform capabilities.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, technical leadership, reusable patterns and modern software engineering practices.
• Build resilient, observable and secure services that perform effectively in production environments.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, SREs and Security specialists to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, support capability growth and contribute to engineering communities and standards.
• Champion automation, operational excellence, reliability, secure coding and continuous improvement.

Skills

Software Engineering

DevOps

SRE & Service Engineering

Technology Leadership

Critical Thinking

Decision Making

Coaching & Feedback

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

OpenShift

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Golang Lead Engineer in Bristol to lead backend service development and delivery. You will balance hands-on Go development with technical leadership, shaping scalable, secure services and deployment pipelines while collaborating with product owners and security specialists in a hybrid working model.

The role emphasizes mentoring, engineering excellence, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable backend capabilities within a regulated financial services