Software Engineer - Back End

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Back End

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION: London

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

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 office sites.

About this opportunity

We're looking for Back End Software Engineers to join our Segments and Propositions Digital Experience (SPDE) lab in London.

Mass Affluent is the segment of customers with between £50,000 and £5 million in investable assets. We have close to three million Mass Affluent customers, and we are working hard to create greenfield personalised and tailored offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers' fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.

What will I be doing?

• Having an excellent understanding of Agile software development and supporting continuous improvement of your team

• Write modular, clean, testable applications using design principles such as SOLID and DRY

• Significantly contribute to the delivery of strategic microservices that support the Mass Affluent Digital Experience offering

• Contribute to levelling up how we design, build and operate software as scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community

• Technically mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, through code reviews and design documents

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Strong understanding and experience of designing, building and operating Java services (particularly microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems). We use the Spring Boot framework for building our microservices.

• Experience designing, building and operating services using Cloud Native services from any major Cloud provider. We run our services on Kubernetes on GCP.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers

• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change

• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD)

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

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 underrepresented 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 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.