Golang Lead Engineer

JOB TITLE: Golang Lead Engineer

LOCATION(S): London and Bristol

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

We are looking for a Golang Lead Engineer to lead the technical development and delivery of backend services that are reliable, secure, scalable and easy to operate!

This role sits within Software Engineering and offers the opportunity to shape the Group's Mobile Security Core and wider backend capabilities. You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams build high-quality Go services, APIs, integrations and deployment pipelines while driving engineering excellence across delivery teams!

As a senior technical leader, you'll:

• Lead the design, build, release and support of complex backend services and shared platform capabilities.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, technical leadership, reusable patterns and modern software engineering practices.
• Build resilient, observable and secure services that perform effectively in production environments.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, SREs and Security specialists to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, support capability growth and contribute to engineering communities and standards.
• Champion automation, operational excellence, reliability, secure coding and continuous improvement.

About us / 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.

Join us and, give us your best and we’ll give you ours. Here, you’ll make a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities, you’ll find them all here.

What you'll need

• Strong Software Engineering expertise, with significant experience building and operating production backend services in Go, including testing, concurrency, code quality and maintainable service design.
• Experience designing and delivering microservices, APIs, integrations and distributed systems, balancing performance, resilience, security and maintainability.
• Strong DevOps and operational engineering capability, including CI/CD, automated testing, release practices and production support.
• Experience building and operating containerised services, with knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and modern cloud deployment approaches.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, guide technical decisions and lead delivery through ambiguity.
• Excellent critical thinking, decision making and stakeholder collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and influence outcomes. The Skills Taxonomy identifies relevant skills including Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE & Service Engineering, Technology Leadership, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Coaching & Feedback and Stakeholder Management.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience modernising legacy applications into well-owned backend services.
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment or other large-scale enterprise organisation.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenShift, platform engineering capabilities or internal developer platforms.
• Experience using AI tools responsibly to support software development, testing, documentation or operational activities.

This is a place for you...

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are 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 launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have 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.

Benefits

• 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

Ready to make an impact? Apply today