Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Edinburgh seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical development in a hybrid work model. Responsibilities include coding in Java and Spring Boot, leading a team, and ensuring the reliability of services. The ideal candidate will have expertise in microservices and incident management. Benefits include a generous pension contribution, annual bonuses, and 30 days of holiday. Join us in making impactful solutions for our diverse client base.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-based bonus

Share schemes

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering regular updates to senior management.
• Ability to design, develop, and maintain microservices-based applications.
• Strong focus on application-level debugging and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead in shaping software solutions and making impactful decisions.
• Collaborate with team and product owner for delivery excellence.
• Assist in service support ensuring availability and reliability.

Skills

Hands-on coding experience in Java

Experience in Spring Boot

Incident management skills

Experience with OCP/Kafka

Mentoring and guiding a team

Familiar with agile development practices

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Kibana

CI/CD Pipelines

Git

Job description

JOB TITLE:

Senior Software Engineer

SALARY:

£70,929 - £80,000

LOCATION:

Edinburgh

HOURS:

Full time

WORKING PATTERN:

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity

As Senior Software Engineer, you'll bring your deep technical expertise to the table, driving technical development and delivery in key areas. You'll focus on solving complex challenges with your specialised knowledge taking ownership of critical tech delivery within your team.

In this role, you'll lead way in shaping the direction of our software solutions, using your expertise to make impactful decisions and drive success. You'll collaborate closely with the team and product owner to ensure delivery excellence. If you're someone who thrives on delivering high-quality solutions and making real impact with your technical know-how, we'd love to hear from you!

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

What you'll need

• Experience in providing senior management with regular updates regarding feature development and support.
• Demonstrate good hands‑on coding experience in Java (preferably Java 17) and Spring Boot, with the ability to design, develop, and maintain microservices‑based applications.
• Proactively monitor OCP/Kafka processes and alerts, identifying and resolving issues before they impact business operations.
• Manage service support and Operations Management to support ensuring high availability and reliability of services.
• Mentor, guide, and lead a team of engineers in incident, problem, and change management, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Manage daily incidents and alerts, including log maintenance, review, and root cause analysis.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose issues using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and Kibana, with a strong focus on application‑level debugging and performance tuning.
• Report impacts, perform reconciliation, and engage stakeholders effectively during incident follow‑ups.
• Liaise with vendors for incident resolution and process improvements.
• Review and manage change requests, participate in CAB discussions, and ensure smooth change implementation.
• Lead BAU events such as Disaster Recovery (DR), Penetration Testing, and third‑party change coordination.
• Knowledge Maven for dependency management
• Experienced with basic software development tools, source code management, and process automation like CI/CD Pipelines and Git.
• Demonstrated commitment to supporting rota schedules subjected to Incidents and Change.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Demonstrate familiarity with the banking sector, particularly with Faster Payments scheme, BACS payments scheme, and Image Clearing System.
• Possess knowledge and experience in agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g., TDD, BDD, Selenium).
• Experience in providing technical guidance and mentoring.
• Understanding of one of the public and private cloud infrastructure (AWS,GCP,Azure,OCP) will be beneficial.

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‑representative 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!