
Lead Software Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • United 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