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JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 – £78,810
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full time (5 days, 35 hours)
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh or Leeds office location
About this opportunity
We are building a truly differentiated digital proposition, transforming the way people plan, protect and save to enable everyone to secure their financial future. We’re on a values-led mission to reimagine the way our customers interact with us, and the tools and experiences our colleagues are empowered with when helping them.
You'll play a pivotal role in the future of our product development, shaping the way we design, build, test and deploy using innovative technology. You'll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to create empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise value to customers.
Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
Produce high quality, well-tested and robust code
Strong experience in JavaScript development (ideally React and node)
Able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs
Good experience of containerised services (e.g. docker & k8s)
Knowledge of cloud technologies
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, and experience of working as part of an agile team
Why Lloyds Banking Group.
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you’ll need:
You have strong knowledge of modern software development toolsets including cloud hosting, web application development, APIs, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Your experience has given you an understanding of programming principles and methodologies for crafting re-usable and modular code
You are passionate about helping to build high quality software
You want to work in an agile way
You appreciate non-functional as well as the functional aspects of software engineering
You have effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas and provide direction to others
You're able to work without supervision and offer mentorship and leadership to others
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Azure DevOps, git, Jira, Confluence
React, NodeJS, .Net Core
NUnit, Jest, React Testing Library
Cypress/Playwright
Dynatrace (monitoring)
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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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
30 days’ holiday, 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!
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.
