Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

We’re already the UK’s leading Digital Bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our brands. Now we're on a journey to build the bank of the future, for which we're investing £3bn across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers!

The Platform Engineering team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group, you'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations.

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer (backend) to work on our flagship Internal Developer Platform.

The ideal candidate will have a solid track record with demonstrable experience as a software engineer working as part of a team to build performant and maintainable backend solutions.  The candidate will also have a passion for technology and a commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

What you’ll do 

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance our Internal Developer Platform

• Lead the delivery of features, from prototype to production, ensuring they are well tested, secure, and meet our engineering standards.

• Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support engineers and drive upskilling.

• Lead system design work, collaborating with colleagues from across the business, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.

• Shape the product roadmap to ensure we're delivering the right features for our customers.

Who are we looking for

• Someone who thinks of the big picture! Always considering how our products & services can support the business, quick to identify new opportunities.

• With a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions that work for the group today and into the future

• Someone with a highly collaborative approach, working closely with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers and partner resources,

• You’ll be comfortable mentoring more junior colleagues, encouraging and supporting their technical development

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

• Extensive experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python

• Extensive hands-on experience building solutions for the public cloud

• Significant experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code best practices employing Hashicorp Terraform

• Experience with serverless compute and containerisation platforms

• Quality is part of everything that you do, including robust test and release automation.

• Proactively removes bottlenecks, toil and repetitive work affecting developer velocity

It would be great if you also had

• Hands-on experience building solutions for Google Cloud, particularly using Big Data services

• Passionate about building the best possible developer experience for our engineers

• Experience working with and building CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of building secure solutions

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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along 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.