End Date
Thursday 10 April 2025
Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303
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Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Back End

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000

LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Leeds office per week
About this opportunity…
We’re looking for Back End Software Engineers to join our Mass Affluent Digital Experience (MADE) lab in Leeds. 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. A major part of the Group strategy to grow in the mass affluent market and the new Mass Affluent team are focused on designing a new digitally led proposition for this segment of customers.
About us…
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

Here’s how you’ll make a difference…

• 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.

What do we need to see from applicants?
We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered we’ll need to see evidence of the following in your CV:

Essential…

• 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.
• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.
• A good understanding and experience of relational with database e.g. SQL.
• Experience designing, building and operating services using Cloud Native services from any major Cloud provider. We run our services on Kubernetes on GCP.

Desirable…

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

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
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

Please refer the Job description for details