Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: £47,970 - £53,100

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

14 million active online customers across our brands. Now we're on a journey to build the bank of the future, for which we're investing £3bn across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers!

The Platform Engineering team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group, you'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations.

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Software Engineer (backend) to work on our flagship Internal Developer Platform.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience as a software engineer working as part of a team to build performant and maintainable backend solutions.  The candidate will also have a passion for technology and a commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

What you’ll do 

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance our Internal Developer Platform

• Work on delivery of features, from prototype to production, ensuring they are well tested, secure, and meet our engineering standards.

• Inform the product roadmap to ensure we are delivering the right features for our customers.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

Who are we looking for

• Someone who thinks of the big picture! Always considering how our products & services can support the business, quick to identify new opportunities.

• With a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions that work for the group today and into the future

• Someone with a highly collaborative approach, working closely with other specialists

What you’ll need

• Experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python.

• Experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code best practices employing Hashicorp Terraform

• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

• Experience using relational or NoSQL databases

• Quality is part of everything that you do, including robust test and release automation.

It would be great if you also had

• Hands-on experience building solutions for the public cloud (Azure)

• Passionate about building the best possible developer experience for our engineers

• Experience working with and building CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of building secure solutions

• Knowledge of Backstage.io and supporting ecosystem

• Knowledge of the industry concepts of Internal Developer Platform and Golden Paths or Paved Roads

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies