Lloyds Banking Group

Lead Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BristolUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead a full-stack feature team of software and quality engineers with a focus on predictable delivery and engineering excellence.
  • Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery.
  • Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests.
  • Demonstrate leadership for API and microservice design with deep knowledge in your specialist domain (API/microservice/Frontend).
  • Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in full‑stack engineering, with hands‑on leadership using React on the frontend and .NET on the backend.
  • Proven experience applying modern engineering practices, including automated testing, TDD, CI, pair programming, code reviews, and strong version control workflows.
  • Strong technical leadership with the ability to set engineering direction, bootstrap new projects, and guide multi‑disciplinary teams across the full development lifecycle.
  • Expertise in designing and evolving RESTful API contracts, ensuring scalability, consistency, and maintainability.
  • Solid understanding of cloud‑hosted application development, modern web architectures, API integration patterns, and DevOps‑driven CI/CD pipelines.
  • Advanced proficiency in Git, including branching strategies, code collaboration, and managing complex change flows.
  • Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, covering unit, UI, integration, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Solid working knowledge of SQL, including complex queries, indexing strategies, stored procedures, and performance optimisation.
  • Experience developing, deploying, and supporting applications on Windows Server and IIS environments.
  • Practical understanding of IIS deployment, configuration, and environment management.
  • Ability to identify and introduce new technologies, tools, and best practices to uplift engineering quality and team effectiveness.
  • Excellent communication skills with the confidence to express technical opinions clearly and the pragmatism to adapt when appropriate.
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 & Tools
full-stack engineeringReact.NETautomated testingTDDCIpair programmingcode reviewsRESTful API designSQL
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationteam managementcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitytechnical directionmentorshipfeedbackdevelopment support