Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial institution on a mission to redefine banking. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in building scalable applications and supporting customer data systems. This innovative team values collaboration, agility, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that your contributions will significantly impact millions of customers. With a hybrid working model and a focus on diversity and inclusion, this role offers a unique opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment while driving technological advancements. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in building large-scale applications in Java.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native principles and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain customer data systems with a focus on performance and resilience.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design and implement robust solutions.

Skills

Java

Software Engineering

Agile Mindset

Test Driven Development

Algorithms and Data Structures

Microservices

REST APIs

Cloud Native Principles

Tools

Spring

Hibernate

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION(S): London

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 office location.

About this opportunity

We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. We're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

This role sits within our Customer Data Services Platformand we're the team that looks after the customer data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality and always ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience based on performance, resilience, and integrity. The systems we support, underpin almost everything we do as Lloyds Banking Group. We maintain these systems with the highest standard, with an ambition to take ownership of the operational support 24/7 using SRE principles.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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

Generally, you are technically minded and skilled at java. You have developed a project from inception to production and understand the value of well tested software and production feedback.

We're looking for engineers that can ask penetrating questions, design and communicate robust solutions, develop in short iterative cycles following XP practices, while being an agile advocate for excellence, culture, and sustainability.

Be prepared to join an existing development team and learn fast with the goal of becoming a strong member of the team, able to mentor peers and collaborate with stakeholders.

More specifically we’d like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:

• Hands on Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications in Java, using a broad set of tools, techniques, and platforms, with a focus on proving it works and does the right thing.

• Experience working with Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, JSON, Microservices, Kafka and Postgres.

• Good understanding of architecture and cloud native principles

• Good grasp of algorithms and data structures

• Familiar with test driven development approach

• Experience working with container environments in particular Docker, Kubernetes and Helm (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS), ideally GCP.

• Familiar with automating CI/CD with tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker.

• Passionate about driving a modern and inclusive culture

• Able to listen, reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion without being strongly tied to it

• A growth mindset, who encourages, mentor and motivates the teams around you

• Have an Agile mindset and be familiar with Agile values and principles

Location and Hybrid working

The role is based in London with some travel to the other two locations. You should expect to be in office at least two days per week with home-working available for the remaining days

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 performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.