Lead iOS Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Bristol is seeking a Lead iOS Software Engineer to lead and support engineering teams in delivering high-quality software. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a leadership role, strong programming skills in Swift, and a passion for mentoring junior engineers. The role emphasizes teamwork and innovation, with a great benefits package including a generous pension, annual bonuses, and a commitment to inclusivity and diversity.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award, subject to performance

Share schemes including free shares

Adaptable benefits for lifestyle

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams and projects.
• Ability to take hands-on ownership of technical initiatives.
• Diverse technical experience in delivering high quality applications at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software features that contribute to customer satisfaction.
• Mentor and support engineering teams while delivering high-quality software.
• Work with product and engineering leads to achieve customer outcomes.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Swift

Knowledge of Git, Xcode, XCTest, XCUITest, and Jenkins

Ability to communicate effectively across teams

Knowledge of software architecture and security patterns

Experience in leading software engineering teams

Job description

Lead iOS Software Engineer

Salary: £90,440 - £110,000
Location (S): Bristol
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Two days per week (or 40% of your time) at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a Lead iOS 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.

• Ability to take hands‑on ownership for driving technical initiatives across multiple teams in and across the lab, unblocking technical challenges, proving out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use across the teams

• 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.

• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and high performance.

What you’ll need

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Swift and modern toolsets like Git, Xcode, XCTest, XCUITest and Jenkins

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale.

• Solid knowledge on software architecture and security patterns

• You're able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste

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!