Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid work style, involving at least two days per week at our Edinburgh hub.

Drive cultural change at the heart of the UK's largest digital bank

Within Colleague Waterfront, part of the Insurance, Pensions, and Investments division of Scottish Widows, we are committed to providing excellent support to our customers, empowering them to make informed financial decisions. We blend cutting-edge technologies with human-centered design and systems thinking to help Britain prosper through long-term savings, investments, and pensions. As we advance our mission, we seek a unique blend of technical leadership to join our growing team.

What are we looking for in you?

You will use your judgment to combine tooling, libraries, and programming languages to solve problems and deliver innovative, customer-focused software solutions.

• You'll coach other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential.
• You'll have strong interpersonal and communication skills for exchanging ideas and explaining concepts.
• You'll positively influence team culture by demonstrating the right values and behaviors.
• You'll articulate complex work clearly to key collaborators.

What you'll need:

• Ability to produce high-quality, well-tested, and robust code, including documentation and OpenAPI specifications.
• Experience in building and testing backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Node.js, Jest.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, Helm, and other DevOps tools.
• Good understanding of Cloud technologies.
• Experience creating automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and end-to-end delivery experience.
• Experience with agile methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and Confluence.

Additional useful experience:

• Experience with Istio or configuring ingress in Kubernetes.
• Understanding of product lifecycle and RTL processes in enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture.
• Understanding of SQL/NoSQL database management.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We are evolving by investing billions in our people, data, and technology to better serve our 26 million customers. Join us on this journey of growth and purpose.

About working for us

We prioritize inclusivity, diversity, and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to flexible working arrangements, including adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We guarantee a fair interview process for applicants with disabilities and provide reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

Benefits include:

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual performance bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Flexible benefits like shopping discounts
• 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Join us to do meaningful work that makes a difference to millions of people!