Software Engineer (Back End)

Lloyds Banking Group; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK financial institution is seeking a Software Engineer (Back End) to join their Transport Platform team in Newport/Cardiff. This role involves designing and developing software features focusing on customer needs, with a strong emphasis on modern frameworks and cloud technologies. Ideal candidates will have solid programming skills, cloud experience, and a collaborative spirit. The position offers a competitive salary and a wide-ranging benefits package, including generous pension contributions and a performance-related bonus.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Solid programming skills in a modern object-oriented language, preferably JavaScript or Java.
• Strong understanding of the server-side or client-side application stack.
• Experience in working on public cloud environments such as Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and integrate software features meeting customer needs.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
• Mentor early career engineers to advance their technical skills.

Skills

Programming skills in JavaScript or Java

Building APIs or Web Applications

Understanding of AGILE practices

Cloud environments (GCP, Azure, AWS)

Containerisation with Docker and/or Kubernetes

Coaching or mentoring abilities

Collaboration and ownership culture

Tools

Node.js

SpringBoot

React.js

Job description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Back End)

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100 per annum

LOCATION: Newport until Q3 then Cardiff

HOURS: Full-time, 35 hours

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at one of our Office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation? This role will be based in the Newport office on Pencarn Way until Q3 when the office will move to Cardiff on John Street.

The role sits within the Transport Platform, which is a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance, and related services including Digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.

In pursuit of our mission, we are on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We're investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices, and leveraging a new data ecosystem. All using modern frameworks and native Cloud capabilities. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.

As a Software Engineer you'll design, develop and integrate software features on the product roadmaps that meets customer needs. Working within a Lab Feature Team alongside Product Owner and Quality Engineers to achieve business and technology outcomes whilst retaining a deep focus on service.

WHERE YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Defining component software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; raising when it feels appropriate to trade-offs against the target architecture.
• Engineering software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt. Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
• Participating in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, elevate impediments, manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.
• Enabling the team's effectiveness to advance by participating in design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices.
• Participating in Technical Communities to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the group's tooling capabilities as those mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety.
• Promoting active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps.
• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence, and by expanding your own skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions.

WHY LLOYDS BANKING GROUP?

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

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. We'll take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE:

• Solid programming skills in a modern object orientated language preferably JavaScript or Java.
• Strong understanding of the server-side or client-side application stack both breadth and depth in building APIs or Web Applications, using Node.js, SpringBoat or React.js frameworks and applying SOLID, RESTful principles or package management with database interactions (Structured and unstructured).
• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices including system design, continuous integration, and test automation (with simulation.).
• Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.
• Technical understanding of containerisation with Docker and/ or Kubernetes.
• Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities.
• Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments.

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.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more! Join our journey!