Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: £53,613 – £59,570

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full-time

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

About this opportunity

We’re on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. We’re redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

This role sits within our Customer Data Services Platform and we’re the team that looks after the customer data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality and always ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience based on performance, resilience, and integrity. The systems we support, underpin almost everything we do as Lloyds Banking Group. We maintain these systems with the highest standard, with an ambition to take ownership of the operational support 24/7 using SRE principles.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you’ll need

You class yourself as a software engineer that can ask penetrating questions, design and communicate robust solutions, develop in short iterative cycles following XP practices, and take pride in delivering working maintainable software. You have an appetite for growth and seek rewarding challenges.

You are prepared to join an existing development team and learn fast with the goal of becoming a strong member of the team, able to mentor peers and collaborate with stakeholders.

More specifically we’d like you to have much of the following, but it’s ok if you don’t check every box:

• Software Engineer with java experience

• Knowledge of: Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, JSON, Microservices, Kafka, RBDMS, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP, or equivalents.

• Experienced with Git and GitHub and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker.

• At home in a modern and inclusive culture

• Have an Agile mindset and be familiar with Agile values and principles

• Familiar with test driven development approach

• A growth mindset, happy to share what is known and absorb what is new.

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%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.