Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £63,152 - £78,940

LOCATION(S): Chester or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations

What you'll be doing

The Loans & Affordability Platform will give you the opportunity to work in a forward thinking and diverse team. A team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues through evolving & digitizing the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank.

The culture we live by is to empower individuals and teams to build multiskilled environments using agile methodologies. Ultimately to deliver outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that enable iterative change to market at pace.

A great opportunity has arisen within the Loans Lab for a Senior Software Engineer. Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our backend software, also working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy and work with the Lead Engineer.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll bring your skills to our cross-disciplinary teams of engineers, where you'll have the opportunity to deepen your technical knowledge and understanding in a modern stack, as well as support and lead on developing a quality backend system.

Why join us?

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.

What we're looking for

• You'll use your judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems, and help us to deliver exciting, customer- focused software solutions.
• You'll get involved in coaching other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential.
• You'll have strong interpersonal and communication skills, for exchanging ideas and explaining concepts.

What you'll need:

• Experience producing high quality, well-tested and robust code.
• To be able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.
• Strong experience in Microservice Development using SpringBoot.
• Good experience of containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
• Good awareness & understanding of Database design.
• To be 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 e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Some experience of JavaScript/TypeScript, Devops tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

This is a place for you

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 also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance related bonus
• 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 make an impact? Apply today.