Lead Android Software Engineer

lloyds banking group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Lead Android Software Engineer to advocate for engineering excellence and support team development. In this hybrid role, you will deliver high-quality software solutions while coaching junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong Kotlin capabilities, experience with large-scale applications, and a passion for quality delivery. This position offers flexible working, a generous benefits package, and the chance to grow within a dynamic team.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams & projects within large, distributed systems.
• Diverse technical experience with a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale.
• Strong knowledge in software architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital for the company's mission.
• Work with product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes.
• Influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as processes improve.

Skills

Kotlin

Git

Android Studio

Junit

Espresso

GitHub

Jetpack Compose

Job description

End Date: Thursday 18 December 2025

Salary Range: £100,657 - £183,551

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title

Lead Android Software Engineer

Location

London or Bristol

Salary

London: £104,686 - £125,000; Bristol: £90,440 - £110,000

Hours

Full time

Working Pattern

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London office

On-call Required

yes

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a Lead Android Software Engineer. You’ll be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player‑coach” model.

You’ll work to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the engineering teams. Working in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever‑changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About You

• Work as part of a self‑organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams & projects within large, distributed systems.
• A capable technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well‑factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What you’ll need

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Kotlin and modern toolsets like Git, Android Studio, Junit, Espresso and GitHub.
• Solid knowledge on software architecture patterns.
• Strong knowledge in Jetpack Compose
• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.
• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner‑sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?Join our journey!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.