UX Engineer - Design System (6-Month FTC)

End Date

Sunday 23 February 2025

Salary Range

£68,202 - £75,780

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading bank with over 30m customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers. We’ve placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.
We serve millions of customers every day, from individuals and families to large businesses and corporations. This means we’re well – placed to help Britain prosper by shaping the way we spend, save and borrow.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: UX Engineer - Design System (6-Month FTC)

LOCATION: London / Edinburgh / Manchester / Chester / Halifax

HOURS: Full-Time
DURATION: 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract

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

About the opportunity

Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we value customer centric experiences. Within the Commercial Banking design team, we are transforming how users experience their products and services. We’re on the lookout for a senior UX Engineer to join our creative team.
You’ll be leading the charge in transforming our experiences for business and commercial banking customers, ensuring production grade quality delivery coupled with delightful and accessible experiences.
 

Working in a multi-disciplinary design, product, and engineering team, you’ll be at the forefront of developing out the code libraries for the design system –   for a key area of our business. You’ll also be supported by our wider Experience Design and Engineering communities.
A hybrid role operating between a developer and UX designer, you’ll be responsible for:

• Planning and codifying components, templates or design patterns for our design and engineering communities. Working with user experience designers within the team, you’ll work cohesively to integrate your best-in-class engineering principles while adhering to latest design best practises. This will require taking prototypes and design within Figma and identifying common components and patterns that codify these in our design system for software engineers to access and use in their everyday work.

• Program the front-end: use React, styled-components, or similar, to create interactive layouts, features, or execute other design ideas.

• Collaborate with UX and engineering teams: As a professional with both design and programming abilities, act as the bridge between the two teams. Working with designers, back-end engineers, and writers to develop products and services.

Experience / Skills

This role is an intersection between a front-end software engineer and a web/UI designer and engineers. Experience/ skills required:

• A solid understanding of programming fundamentals -Experience of coding in various such as HTML, CSS, Javascript.

• A strong advocacy for UX, mastery at UI implementation - Experience of both working with UX designers and implementation of UX principles & practices in your work.

• Bi-lingual in pixels and pointers

• Prior experience of working on design systems – Developing tokens and theming to enable designs to be translated to variables, ensuring a seamless transition from design language to code.

• Has worked in teams that use tooling such as Figma or Adobe Creative Suite

• Significant, proven experience as a UX Engineer or similar role (e.g. front-end software engineer), with proficiency in React, CSS and Figma libraries.

• Excellent attention to detail, implementing and maintaining user interfaces with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible designs.

• Write production-quality code with a strong focus on performance, maintainability and performance. Staying abreast of technology, elevating our design benchmarks.

What you’ll be doing

• Work collaboratively with designers, engineers and Product owners to iterate designs and prototypes identifying and raising issues as early in the lifecycle as possible.

• Acting as a bridge that ties design and engineering teams together.

• Implementing UIs and writing production code

• Integrating prototypes and design components/ design patterns into the software development life cycle.

• Building tools to improve the UX process

• Building inclusive products that delight users

• Communicating the value provided to cross-functional partners

• Staying current on tooling trends and disruptive technologies being deployed.

• Advocating for content strategy, creative directions, and raising engineering complexities.

No week is likely to be the same, with opportunities to develop the discipline across wider Business Units in the future.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
 

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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• 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 to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let’s create something extraordinary together!
 

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.