End Date
Wednesday 04 June 2025
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Flexible Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Reduced Hours
Job Description Summary
Aims to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer ( Fullstack )
SALARY: £70,929-£86,691 pa
LOCATION(S): Chester, Leeds, Halifax & Manchester
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 one of our offices stated above .
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
We have multiple openings across our business for senior software engineer s with experience in a combination of backend and frontend development to join our growing engineering team s. You’ll be responsible for developing high-quality, scalable services as part of our microservices-based architecture, while continuing to build your skills with the latest tools and frameworks.
In th ese role s, you’ll get the chance to work with modern technologies, including microservices architectures, cloud-based infrastructure, and containerized environments.
You’ll play a key role in developing, testing, and optimizing back-end services that support seamless user experiences and integrate with various front-end and external systems.
What will you be doing with us?
* Design, develop, test, and deploy modular applications, APIs and services using Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React orrelated technologies.
* Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality back-end services using Java and related technologies.
* Develop containerized applications using Docker and deploy them in Kubernetes environments.
Implement Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create well-structured, domain-focused systems that reflect business requirements.
* Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD), ensuring that code is thoroughly tested and of the highest quality.
* Be part of a cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with the Tech Lead, Product Owner and your peers to define and build exciting new financial products for our customers.
* Integrate with front-end components and third-party APIs, ensuring smooth and efficient communication between systems.
* Optimize and refactor existing codebases for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
* Build efficient and reusable front-end and back-end systems and abstractions.
ABOUT US
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!
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
We’re actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from anyone that feels they meet a combination of the below.
If you’re more confident in either backend or frontend development, don’t let that hold you back— we’d still love to hear from you. You might be exactly what we’re looking for!
Essential
Software Development:
Strong, hands-on commercial experience in either or both frontend of backend engineering.
* Frontend Development: Technical excellence, with strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Styled Components.
* Backend Development: Technical excellence, with strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with Java 17+, Spring Boot and relational databases. Full-stack experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node. Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.
* Test Automation: Use modern testing practices and frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines. Strong experience of test first development and unit testing with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, Pact, Cypress and Playwright.
* DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD and build pipelines, using tools such as Github, Harness, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, Grafana and Dynatrace. Take ownership and responsibility for the lifespan of the things you contribute to. A “you build it, you run it” attitude.
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 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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more.
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.
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