Full-Stack Software Engineer

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!

About this opportunity

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels. The platform also includes the Core Banking System and Vault Banking Products labs who support the run and change needed to operate all core banking products for the LBG brands, product APIs, transaction and statement services that are needed for channel interactions.

A great opportunity has arisen within our team for a Full-Stack Software Engineer. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Be at the heart of delivery in your team building features with a passion for evolving best practices within your community.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.
• You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Build efficient and reusable front-end and back-end systems and abstractions.

What you’ll need

• Extensive experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices.
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as Reactjs, Redux, Webpack; ideally with experience of maintenance / upgrading historic versions.
• Commanding grasp of HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
• Knowledge of modern software development toolsets including Cloud hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, API’s, DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.
• Effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• An advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• Working with the cloud/GCP and the opportunities that it brings
• Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment

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
• 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!