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Thursday 12 June 2025Salary Range
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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £90,440 - £106,400
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.
About us…
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…
About this opportunity
We’ve achieved so much in recent years, building our strong brands into thriving ones, the UK’s biggest digital bank and the widest branch network. Our multi-service, multi-brand offer is a unique strength, and we’ll work hard to ensure our brands continue to grow and succeed. The way our customers want to deal with us is continuing to change, and they are telling us they need more from us. They need a seamless digital experience, with personalised products and services at their fingertips.
We 're responsible for servicing over 38 million active debit cards across all LBG brands, and work alongside global industry leaders, including Visa and MasterCard, using data, technology and systems thinking to drive great outcomes and experiences for our customers.
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Debit Cards and Payments lab, you'll help to transform, modernise and re-imagine our existing platforms and services, adopting the latest technology and agile ways of working to deliver iterative value at pace.
What you’ll do
You’ll lead the technical development and delivery at Team, Lab and sometimes platform level.
Be a Line Manager who will act as co-lead with the Team PO for overall delivery.
Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
Be at the heart of delivery in your team building features with a passion for evolving best practices within your community.
Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
Be curious about technology and understanding how things work.
You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.
You'll love to solve Customer problems using technology and Engineering practices.
You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions.
What you’ll need
A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers within their team and area.
Deep understanding and proficiency in at least one language (Java w/Spring Boot, Go)
Experienced with modern engineering concepts and technologies such as Microservices, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Tekton.
Ability to write efficient and scalable software as well as experience with performance profiling and optimisation.
Strong understanding of distributed system architectures and a proven ability to deliver high-quality applications at scale.
Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice in payment systems e.g. PCI-DSS
It would be great if you also had
Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. SQL Databases etc.
Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP or AZURE.
Experience building and maintaining payment services on cloud platforms.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance.
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 for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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.
