Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Software Engineer developing solutions for the Loans & Affordability Platform at Lloyds Banking Group. Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams in a hybrid working environment.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeChester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £63,152 - £94,728 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Loans & Affordability Platform will give you the opportunity to work in a forward thinking and diverse team.
A team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues through evolving & digitizing the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank.
Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our backend software.
Working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges.
You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy and work with the Lead Engineer.
Support and lead on developing a quality backend system.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience producing high quality, well-tested and robust code.
To be able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.
Strong experience in Microservice Development using SpringBoot.
Good experience of containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
Good awareness & understanding of Database design.
To be able to create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.
Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team.
Some experience of JavaScript/TypeScript, Devops tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance related bonus
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

Backend DevelopmentRESTful APIsMicroservicesDatabase DesignTestingSoftware Development LifecycleCode QualityContinuous IntegrationJavaScriptTypeScript

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication