Lead Software Engineer

time left to apply End Date: July 14, 2025 (14 days left to apply)

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

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.

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.

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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