Lloyds Banking Group

Lead Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Visit company website
✨ AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 £90,440 - £164,920 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudJavaJavaScriptReactReduxSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript

About the role

  • As Lead Software Engineer you'll be tasked with a variety of responsibilities that are crucial to our success.
  • This is a leadership level role and will blend both technical expertise with a great passion for coaching and developing people, including advocating team wellbeing.
  • Lead and mentor a multi-skilled team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to support business goals.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
  • Collaborate with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business objectives.
  • Use agile tools, methodologies and data to monitor progress, addressing any issues promptly to ensure timely delivery.
  • Identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful implementations to live.
  • Develop and document processes to improve engineering efficiency and service quality.
  • Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, fostering an environment of learning and growth within the team.
  • Management of Third Party Suppliers to ensure solutions are performant, secure and resilient, and meet bank objectives and client needs.
  • Monitor and analyse service performance metrics to continually improve our offerings.
  • Accept 24*7 accountability and ownership to support availability, currency and performance.
  • Ensure that all engineering activities align with industry standards and regulations.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
  • Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks (React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3 Java 17+, Spring Boot and relational databases)
  • Breadth of technical understanding across software development and architecture, service operations, DevOps, and cloud.
  • Experience of agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, test automation and the E2E software development lifecycle.
  • Strong communication skills, dynamic and adaptable, with the ability to facilitate efficient and effective decision-making.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators.
  • Experience of managing Third Party Suppliers in the context of providing software solutions, including the configuration and testing of such products.
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
ReactReduxJavaScriptTypeScriptHTML5CSS3Java 17+Spring Bootrelational databasesDevOps
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationadaptabilitydecision-makingteam wellbeingcontinuous improvementcollaborationproblem-solving