Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 78,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Customer Data Services Platform in London. The role involves developing large scale applications, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have strong Java skills and experience with modern software development practices.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in building large scale applications in Java.
• Familiar with test driven development approach.
• Hands-on experience with container environments.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining customer data services.
• Ensuring high standards of operational support 24/7.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring peers.

Skills

Java

Software Engineering

Agile

Microservices

REST APIs

Kafka

Postgres

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

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End Date

Saturday 07 June 2025

Salary Range

£78,849 - £118,274

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 Description Summary

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 Platform and 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.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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