Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the software experience across its engineering teams. The role involves technical leadership, code quality assurance, and fostering a collaborative environment, with flexibility in working options, including hybrid models. A competitive salary and extensive benefits are offered, supporting both career growth and work-life balance.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Flexible working options available

30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in high-level programming languages (JavaScript, Python).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Hands-on architecture experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable software solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

JavaScript

Python

Architecture Experience

Communication

Collaboration

Cloud Platform Experience

Technical Leadership

Job description

time left to apply End Date: July 1, 2025 (13 days left to apply)

End Date

Monday 30 June 2025

Salary Range

£90,440 - £164,920

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

Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE:Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S):Bristol

HOURS:Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN:Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

We’re on a mission to transform the satisfaction and experience of engineers across Lloyds Banking Group, and we need you to help us do it.

Our Engineering Persona Journeys team, part of the Productivity Services Lab within the Engineering Platform, are focusing on the experience of all our engineers, resolving issues and optimising services to provide an industry leading experience for our engineers to develop in.

Our team is focused on making the process, access, software and hardware available to our engineers at the right time, easily and efficiently. We’re going to source, so we can understand what that really looks like on a day to day basis, understanding perceptions, resolving issue and empowering our colleagues through intuitive, reliable and engaging experiences.

Quite simply we want you to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet our business needs, while also contributing to the growth and development of our engineering team. But it's more than just that, we want you to be passionate about improving the lives of our engineers constantly looking for ways we can bring improvements, tenaciously pursuing these to conclusion.

What you''ll do:

• Technical Leadership: Leading the design and implementation of solutions, ensuring they are scalable, robust, and maintainable

• Code Quality: We want you to be hands on writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code. Reviewing and debugging code written by other team members to ensure high-quality standards

• Collaboration: Working closely with others to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure alignment with our goals, sometimes this may require you to be an advocate, tenaciously pushing ideas forward

• Mentorship: Providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, helping them grow their skills and advance their careers

What you’ll need:

• Extensive experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably both front end (JavaScript) and back end (Python) language.

• Experience with GCP (preferred), Azure, or AWS.

• Hands-on architecture experience.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Someone with a passion for technology and how it can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers! A genuine curiosity about emerging tech and it's application would be beneficial.

• You'll work in a highly collaborative way, working with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers, partner resources and 3rd parties.

• You're adaptable, able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment.

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• 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

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.

time left to apply End Date: June 29, 2025 (11 days left to apply)

About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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