Software Engineer, Test
Cboe Global Markets
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Lead Software Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £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
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Hard skills
ReactReduxJavaScriptTypeScriptHTML5CSS3Java 17+Spring Bootrelational databasesDevOps
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationadaptabilitydecision-makingteam wellbeingcontinuous improvementcollaborationproblem-solving
