Software Engineer - Cloud, Microservices & Agile Impact

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Bonuses

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

Generous leave policies

Job summary

Join a leading banking group as a Software Engineer in Edinburgh, contributing to innovative digital solutions that transform customer experiences. This full-time, hybrid role offers the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, design and deploy software products, and be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of modern software development tools, cloud hosting, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Understanding of programming principles, modular code, and software quality.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality, well-tested, and robust code.
• Design, build, and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle using agile methodologies.

Skills

Software development tools

Cloud hosting

APIs

CI/CD

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

React

NodeJS

.Net Core

NUnit

Jest

React Testing Library

Dynatrace

Job description

This position is no longer open for applications

Salary: GBP70929 - GBP78810 per annum

JOB TITLE:Software Engineer

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS:Full time (5 days, 35 hours)

WORKING PATTERN:Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh or Leeds office location

About this opportunity

We are building atruly differentiateddigital proposition,transformingthe waypeople plan, protect and savetoenable everyone to secure their financial future. We’re on a values-led mission to reimagine the way our customers interact with us, and the tools and experiences our colleagues are empowered with when helping them.

You'll play a pivotal role in the future of our product development, shaping the way we design, build, test and deploy using innovative technology. You'll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to create empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise value to customers.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

Produce high quality, well-tested and robust code

Able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs

Good experience of containerised services (e.g. docker & k8s)

Knowledge of cloud technologies

Able to create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code

Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products

Experience with agile development methods & tooling, and experience of working as part of an agile team

Why Lloyds Banking Group.

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

You have strong knowledge of modern software development toolsets including cloud hosting, web application development, APIs, continuous integration and continuous delivery

Your experience has given you an understanding of programming principles and methodologies for crafting re-usable and modular code

You are passionate about helping to build high quality software

You want to work in an agile way

You appreciate non-functional as well as the functional aspects of software engineering

You have effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas and provide direction to others

You're able to work without supervision and offer mentorship and leadership to others

And any experience of these would be really useful:

React, NodeJS, .Net Core

NUnit, Jest, React Testing Library

Cypress/Playwright

Dynatrace (monitoring)

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

30 days’ holiday, 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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