Lead Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer

LOCATION(S): London

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 London office

About this opportunity

We're looking to recruit a Lead Software Engineer to be part of our Payments Services Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely!

Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being an experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change. As a lead software engineer within the Domestic Payments Lab, you'll be expected to demonstrate and apply outstanding software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment. You will be responsible for design, build and manage the application  and infrastructure on cloud services. You’ll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll:

• 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 a technical leader, managing all the engineers across feature teams, coaching and/or mentoring other more junior engineers both in your team and in the wider lab as appropriate

• 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

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Be a capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java & Spring Boot microservices and/or  modern JavaScript libraries, such as ReactJS, as well as a proficient understanding of modern engineering toolsets like Kubernetes and Jenkins

• Knowledge of java development standard methodologies and patterns with an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability and performant applications

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong understanding of security patterns and standard methodology is beneficial

• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste

• You advocate for quality and can support the team by demonstrating approaches such as CI/CD standard methodology, Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.

• Technical understanding of: Spring boot, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka, WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - GCP, MS Azure, AWS

Nice to have skills:

• Experience in Banking domain with experience of working in BACS payments scheme, Faster Payments scheme or Cash and Clearings schemes

• Exposure to automating off shelf product deployments.

• Exposure to monitoring tools and dashboards for automated 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 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.