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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £63,152 - £78,940

LOCATION: Leeds

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, at our Leeds office location.

About this Opportunity 

We are looking for a motivated front-end engineer to join the team dedicated to building a brand-new digital stockbroking platform from the ground up.
In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of online trading by designing and implementing a streamlined, customer and colleague focussed platform that will redefine how our customers invest.

What you'll do…

• Join the Direct to Consumer (D2C) Investments Platform’s engineering team and enhance our future platform proposition.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, architects, and other key stakeholders to deliver features and functionality.
• Take ownership of your own development, skills and career growth.
• Drive the culture of delivering highly resilient, secure and quality software.
• Drive adoption of best engineering practices.

Why Lloyds Banking Group  

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience building and supporting dynamic and data driven front ends with ReactJS using TypeScript.
• Previous experience of front end design patterns.
• Previously developed high quality, testable, re-usable and modular code with a range of programming languages, frameworks, and technologies, e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Jest, Playwright, Java Spring Boot/Quarkus, and Kafka.
• GIT, source code management and managing concurrent change on a large code base.
• Automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using Harness.
• Working with large-scale applications where high performance and low latency is a must
• Using distributed systems, asynchronous programming techniques and event driven architectures.
• Cloud native solutions (GCP) and integration with SaaS solutions via RESTful APIs.
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.

It would be great if you also had experience in…

• Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
• Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers)
• Certifications in any of the above technologies

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 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

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.