Senior Backend Engineer - Golang Microservices, Fintech

Lloyds; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A generous holiday allowance

Flexible working

Family leave

Flex cash

Health insurance

Colleague offers

Share plans

Pension

Job summary

Lloyds is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement Golang microservices powering innovative financial products. You will collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions and help shape system design, architecture and engineering practices.

You’ll contribute to a connected platform delivering data-driven insights, enabling integrations, and building scalable, resilient systems that help customers manage their money.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building backend services in Golang for financial products.
• Familiarity with microservices architectures and containerised environments.
• Experience with real-time data processing and event-driven systems.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across the stack including network and DB layers.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Build elegant, performant Golang microservices powering financial products and services.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Contribute to system design and architecture, champion engineering best practices, and improve development processes.
• Develop a connected platform with data-driven insights and scalable, resilient systems.

Skills

Golang

Backend development

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Data modeling

Event-driven architecture

Security best practices

Fintech domain knowledge

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kafka

RabbitMQ

BigQuery

Job description

Lloyds is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement Golang microservices powering innovative financial products. You will collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions and help shape system design, architecture and engineering practices.

You’ll contribute to a connected platform delivering data-driven insights, enabling integrations, and building scalable, resilient systems that help customers manage their money.