Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

LOCATION(S): Chester or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations

Salary: £70,929 – £80,000

Base pay range: £70,929 – £80,000

The Loans & Affordability Platform gives you the opportunity to work in a forward-thinking and diverse team, at the forefront of change for customers and colleagues by evolving & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank. We empower individuals and teams to build multi‑skilled environments using agile methodologies, delivering outstanding customer experiences and driving innovative technology solutions that enable iterative change to market at pace.

• Work collaboratively to create, build, support and improve backend software, closely with product and engineering teams.
• Act as a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with the engineering transformation strategy.
• Coach other engineers and support their growth.
• Use judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems and deliver customer‑focused software solutions.

• Produce high‑quality, well‑tested and robust code.
• 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 Spring Boot.
• Good experience with containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
• Good awareness & understanding of database design.
• Create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
• Understand 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 working as part of an agile team.

• Experience of JavaScript/Type Script, Dev Ops tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

• 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
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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.

We especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups and are disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.