Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer - Colleague Channels Platform

SALARY: £70,929 - £85,000

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (two days) in our Manchester office.

About this opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Colleague Channels Platform, you'll play a key role in the future of LBG Desktop product development - contributing to the way we design, build, test and deploy using the latest technologies including Web, Data and AI. We're looking for customer centric, creative full stack developers to help shape the future and how we enable success for our colleagues and customers with best in class software and tools.

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!

What you'll need

You'll be a seasoned Software Engineer, with:

• Full-stack experience and flexible enough to work on front end or back end tasks
• Experience and broad knowledge of modern design patterns (micro-frontend, microservice) using modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (Node.js and React.js) as well as RESTful APIs and WebServices.
• Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Harness), container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio), and cloud technologies (GCP, OCP)
• A deep understanding of GIT, source code management and managing change into production
• Experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation and how to deliver well maintainable and testable applications in critical environments

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.

Benefits

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!