Senior Software Engineer - Java, Cloud & SRE (Hybrid)

Lloyds Banking Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

A leading UK banking group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London to redefine banking services through technology. The ideal candidate will have strong Java development skills, experience with large-scale applications, and a passion for modern engineering practices. You will join a hybrid work model team that prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and excellence in code quality.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications in Java.
• Good understanding of architecture and cloud-native principles.
• Familiar with test-driven development approach.

Responsibilities

• Design and communicate robust solutions while being an agile advocate.
• Join an existing development team and mentor peers.
• Maintain systems to the highest standards with a 24/7 operational support ambition.

Skills

Java

Spring

Hibernate

REST APIs

Microservices

Kafka

Postgres

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

This position is no longer open for applications

Salary: GBP81999 - GBP91110 per annum

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

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

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

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

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.

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