Senior Front-End Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group seeks a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to enhance its Everyday Banking platform. This hybrid role involves developing software features, collaborating closely with engineering teams, and advocating for quality practices. The position offers a competitive salary, a diverse working environment, and robust benefits, fostering growth and inclusive culture.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Adaptable benefits for lifestyle

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in modern JavaScript libraries.
• Diverse technical experience in delivering applications at scale.
• Knowledge of security patterns and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software features as part of an engineering team.
• Write well-factored and tested code to meet customer outcomes.
• Advocate for quality through CI/CD, Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.

Skills

JavaScript libraries

ReactJS

Redux

Webpack

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Testing libraries

Job description

Job Title: Senior Front-End Software Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels.

What you’ll do

• 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.

• Be at the heart of delivery in your team building features with a passion for evolving best practices within your community.

• 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 we’re looking for

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as ReactJS, Redux, Webpack and modern toolsets like test automation, Kubernetes and Jenkins

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice

• 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 CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD

• Testing libraries. Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library

• Additional frameworks: Google Analytics/Tealium (Adobe Analytics)

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP

• Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment

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.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!