End Date
Sunday 25 January 2026
Salary Range
£47,790 - £71,685
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
SALARY: £48,987 - £54,430
LOCATION: Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Leeds office
About This Opportunity
We are looking for a motivated back-end engineer to join feature teams dedicated to building a brand-new digital stockbroking platform from the ground up in Java.
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.
What youive’ll Do
* Join the Stockbroking Lab's engineering team and enhance our future platform proposition.
* Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, architects, and other key stakeholders to deliver features and functionality.
* Take ownership of your own development, skills and career growth.
* Develop & deliver HTTP API services for our new Stockbroking app
* Work in line with our own good engineering guidelines, and contribute to those guidelines
About Us
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What You’ll Need
Proven experience of…
* Building back end RESTful APIs in Java
* Backend Microservices & accompanying frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot)
* Developing high quality, testable, re-usable and modular code with technologies like modern versions of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus, Maven and Kafka.
* An understanding of developing high quality code and good service design through principles & practices like Clean Code, SOLID principles, Domain Driven Design and TDD
* GIT, source code management and managing concurrent change on a large code base.
* Automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using CI tooling
* Working with large-scale applications developed with high performance in mind
* Using distributed systems. Experience with asynchronous programming techniques and event driven architectures is a bonus
* Cloud native solutions (GCP) and integration with SaaS solutions via RESTful APIs.
* Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.
And any experience of these would be really useful
* Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
* Greenfield development
* Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers)
* Expertise in GCP, Quarkus, Kubernetes and Harness
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.
Benefits
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.
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