Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Team Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent banking organization in Leeds seeks an Engineering Team Manager to lead a dynamic team, drive innovation, and ensure high-quality software delivery. The role involves hands-on ownership of technical challenges, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Ideal candidates should have strong full-stack JavaScript skills and proven experience in managing engineering teams. This position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual bonus based on Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle

Generous parental leave and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript development, ideally Node and React.
• Proven experience in leading, coaching and managing engineering teams, including offshore.
• Ability to demonstrate a passion for solving real-world problems with technology.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product roadmap delivery.
• Take ownership of technical challenges and solutions.
• Mentor engineers to achieve team and personal goals.

Skills

Full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript development

Leading and coaching engineering teams

Problem-solving with technology

Relationship building

Tools

Azure

DevOps tooling

Source control platforms

Job description

As an Engineering Team Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, driving innovation and excellence in our projects. This role is crucial in ensuring the successful delivery of high‑quality software and platforms that make a real impact on our customers, businesses and communities. You’ll be part of a dynamic team that values collaboration, continuous learning and the pursuit of excellence.

Within the Homes Platform we’re responsible for the UK’s biggest mortgage book. We are on a journey to transform our core technology and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. The Digital lab is responsible for products that fully align to modern engineering standards—hosted on Azure cloud infrastructure, using a micro‑service architecture, with JavaScript and TypeScript built applications using React and Node.js. Over the last two years we have launched new digital journeys on modern JavaScript frameworks, developed detailed suites of customer journey and analytics, transitioned workloads onto the Cloud and incrementally modernised and simplified our technology estate.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of the product roadmap.
• Take hands‑on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and proving out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within the team.
• Act as a player‑coach, building others by developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve the team and personal goals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Ensure the team is equipped with the necessary tools and resources to succeed.

Requirements

• Strong technical background in full‑stack JavaScript/TypeScript development (ideally Node and React).
• Proven experience in leading, coaching and managing engineering teams, including offshore.
• Ability to build strong relationships and demonstrate a passion for solving real‑world problems with technology.
• Experience designing technology solutions that are reliable, scalable and performant.

Additional Experience

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (ideally Azure) and source control platforms (such as GHE).
• Familiarity with DevOps tooling, including continuous integration pipelines and containerisation.

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. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited 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.

We’re proud to be a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion. From our menopause health package to our Working with Cancer initiative, we’re creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We’re also a Disability Confident Leader, and we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities, long‑term health conditions, or neurodivergence who meet the minimum criteria.

Benefits

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus (based on Group performance)
• Share schemes, including free shares
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
• Generous parental leave and wellbeing support