JOB TITLE: Senior Software Developer
SALARY: £72,702-£88,858
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid. It requires spending at least two days per week or 40% of the time at an office. Colleagues with disabilities can get workplace adjustments. These include hybrid working options under our Flexibility Works policy.
Why join us?
Lloyds Banking Group focuses on helping Britain prosper. A Senior Software Engineer who values excellence and demonstrates dedication to delivering world-class solutions is sought. This role in Edinburgh offers the opportunity to contribute to transforming the banking experience for customers. The position involves working with innovative technologies and collaborating with skilled colleagues to produce outstanding results.
What you’ll be doing
Identifying, crafting and implementing technical solutions as part of the ongoing platform engineering, focusing on scaling, efficiency, and performance tuning
Contributing to technical design discussions to ensure efficient solutions are achieved
Collaborating in a highly collaborative Engineering team to complete assigned work, showcase progress, and address sophisticated and non-routine problems
Working closely with Customer Journey Managers and Product Owners to ensure requirements are clearly defined, and tickets meet DoR and DoD criteria
Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the entire application stack and exposure to microservices technologies, particularly Java 17, Spring Boot, Maven, Kafka K Stream, as well as RESTful APIs and web services
Working independently and taking ownership while using your own initiative
Understanding the end-to-end SDLC thoroughly
Applying practical experience with agile Development methods, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration/deployment, and Test Automation (BDD), GHE Source code Management, and the E2E software development lifecycle
Applying knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem management processes, ITIL, and production support tools such as Service Now, and providing production support
Providing on-call support one week a month for key support and change delivery
What we’re looking for
Proficiency in Java/ JavaScript (Spring, Spring Boot, Node JS)
Experience with Kafka, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Aurora cloud servers
Familiarity with relational databases (SQL or Oracle, etc.)
Knowledge of Websphere / Collective controller / IHS
Proficiency with DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, Urban Code, Dynatrace, Splunk, and others
Ability to develop effective working relationships with partners, showcasing qualities such as ethics, trustworthiness, and personal organization
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Practical experience developing Microservices and making them available as REST / SOAP APIs
Experience in deploying services in on-prem and containerized (Kubernetes) environments
Experience with Cloud deployments and providing solutions in a hybrid cloud environment
This is a place for you
We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.
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 to make an impact? Apply today!
