Senior Software Engineer

lloyds banking group; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop backend software solutions in a hybrid working environment. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams and ensure high-quality delivery of code. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with Java, Spring Framework, and Microservices. The role offers a competitive salary and an inclusive work culture. Join us to help shape the future of financial services while making a difference in customers' lives.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Well-being initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong experience in designing, building, and testing backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
• Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts to create, build, support, and improve backend software.
• Coach other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential.
• Ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed.

Skills

Java (17+)

Spring Framework

Microservice Development

Kubernetes

Cloud technologies (GCP)

Database design

Agile development methods

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

End Date

Sunday 04 January 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £109,053

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

Job Description Summary

Senior Software Engineer

£70,929 - £80,000

Location

Chester or Manchester

Hours

Full time

Working pattern

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in on of the above office location

About this opportunity

The Loans & Affordability Platform will give you the opportunity to work in a forward thinking and diverse team. A team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues through evolving & digitizing the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank.

The culture we live by is to empower individuals and teams to build multiskilled environments using agile methodologies. Ultimately to deliver outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that enable iterative change to market at pace.

Opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen within the Loans Lab for a Senior Software Engineer. Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our backend software, also working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy and work with the Lead Engineer.

What you’ll need

You’ll use your judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems, and help us to deliver exciting, customer- focused software solutions.

• You’ll get involved in coaching other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential.

• You’ll have strong interpersonal and communication skills, for exchanging ideas and explaining concepts.

What you’ll need

• Produce high quality, well-tested and robust code.

• Able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.

• Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.

• Strong experience in Microservice Development using SpringBoot.

• Good experience of containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP.

• Good awareness & understanding of Database design.

• Able to create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.

• Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.

• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team.

Additional skills

• Some experience of JavaScript/TypeScript, Devops tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

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

• 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.