Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Salary: £68,202 -£75,780
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh Office

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

Lloyds Banking Group is rapidly becoming digital-first, leading in the UK with over 12 million online and almost 8 million mobile banking customers. There's a big opportunity here for you to join our Front-end Engineering team and take part in this transformation. As an experienced team member, show your strong software skills and mentor junior members. You'll thrive in a flexible, collaborative setting where your work on web, mobile, and tablet apps directly impacts millions every day. We're offering great growth opportunities, but it requires you to take initiative, build relationships, and make things happen. Your efforts can positively affect our customers, colleagues, and communities.

What you’ll do

• Writing modular, well-tested front-end applications that stay easy to maintain as our codebase and business scale. Your work has a big impact—it helps ensure our platform stays reliable and manageable, even as we grow.
   

• Ensure our software aligns with existing frameworks, patterns, and practices across the broader engineering community, it really enhances consistency and efficiency. Your attention to this not only benefits our team but also helps us integrate more seamlessly with other departments.
   

• We want you to consistently use the most effective methods in our industry. Sharing your knowledge could help solve complex business problems, especially when there's no clear precedent. It's important to ensure that any solutions you come up with are implemented effectively.
   

• A relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles has a significant impact on our project's success. This dedication ensures we maintain high standards, creates reliable solutions, and instills confidence in the team.

What you’ll need

• Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, and responsive web design, along with your knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.
   

• Deep understanding of Java, Sprint and Springboot, we do follow microservices based delivery which enable us to do fast paced delivery.
   

• Deep understanding of React Frameworks and your hands-on experience with Micro Frontend Architecture and Module Federation really shines through.
   

• Strong professional experience with React and state management libraries like Redux and React-Query.
   

• Strong understanding of source code repositories tools like Git. This expertise has led to our team's smoother workflows and fewer merge conflicts.
   

• Test automation experience, especially using tools like Jest, Testing Library, Cypress and Playwright.
   

• Strong experience with build processes and release automation, including using DevOps Pipelines, Nexus, SonarQube, and AquaSec.
   

• Experience working with Private/Public Cloud (GCP, Azure, and OpenShift).
   

• Familiarity with development aiding tools like npm and webpack is really beneficial. It streamlines our workflow and makes the development process smoother.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.