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End Date

Sunday 05 January 2025

Salary Range

£86,964 - £158,581

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity:

We are looking for dedicated engineers to join brand-new feature teams and leadership dedicated to building an enhanced stockbroking platform.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of online trading by designing and implementing a streamlined, customer and colleague focussed platform that will redefine how our customers invest.

Here’s where you’ll make the difference:

Join the lab engineering leadership team, shape the teams direction as we maintain the current platform and enhance our future proposition

 Collaborate with the head of engineering, product owners, architects, and other stakeholders to define and execute on the lab's roadmap, scope, and deliverables

Mentor and coach, the software engineers, developing their skills and career growth.

Drive the culture of delivering highly resilient, secure and quality software.

Drive adoption of best engineering practices.

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…

What you’ll need:

Leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the software engineering team.

Background delivering systems design, software development, testing and operational stability.

To be hands-on with a range of programming languages, frameworks, and technologies, e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NodeJS, Express, C#, .NET, Oracle PL/SQL and Kafka.

Experience of automation and CI/CD across the SDLC

Experience working with large-scale applications where high performance and low latency is a must

Previously used distributed systems and event driven architectures

Experience in cloud native solutions and integration with SaaS solutions via APIs

Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.

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

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