Hybrid Golang Backend Engineer (Fintech Microservices)

Lloyds Banking Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in London. You will develop Golang microservices powering financial products, collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders, and contribute to system design while promoting engineering best practices.

The role offers a hybrid work pattern in London, full-time hours (35 per week), and a competitive salary in a fintech environment focused on scalable, secure financial services.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with Go
• Experience with microservices architectures
• Knowledge of containerised environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience in Agile environments
• Ability to diagnose issues across stack (network, server, DB)
• Experience building concurrent, distributed systems
• Experience with DevOps/SRE collaboration
• Strong communication and collaboration
• Continuous learning and high-quality software focus

Responsibilities

• Build Golang microservices powering financial products
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders
• Contribute to system design and architecture, promote engineering best practices
• Help improve development processes and platform resilience

Skills

Golang

Microservices

Distributed systems

Agile methodologies

Debugging/triage

Concurrent programming

DevOps/SRE collaboration

Communication

Continuous learning

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

BigQuery

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in London. You will develop Golang microservices powering financial products, collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders, and contribute to system design while promoting engineering best practices.

The role offers a hybrid work pattern in London, full-time hours (35 per week), and a competitive salary in a fintech environment focused on scalable, secure financial services.