Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

End Date Wednesday 07 December 2022 Salary Range £50,130 - £85,137 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer, a pivotal role in the future of our product development, where you can shape the way we design, build, test, and deploy using ground breaking technology. Job DescriptionSenior Software Engineer x2 (Financial Services - Payments - Microservices) Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh based(1-2 days per week in the office and rest from home, please only apply if able to work in the Edinburgh location)Salary & Benefits: £52,912 - £85,982 per annum (depending on experience), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health.Who are Lloyds Banking GroupLloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building theBank of the Future!Where does the role sit and what will I developThe role sits within the Payments Services Platform, our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. The Payments Services Platformsits within Business & Commercial Banking and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivery change. As part of these teams, youll be expected to demonstrate and apply outstanding software engineeringpractices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment. Youll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunitiesfor flexible working.What would I focus on as a Senior Software EngineerThrough your team youll aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the team. We mainly use Java to developing this area. Example of some specific activities might include:

• Form the core of our design and decision forum, and support colleagues with advice based on your expertise
• Develop technical strategies to transform and modernise our lab
• Identify and build relationships with senior leaders to influence and enable the implementation of your strategies
• Supporting the management of key stakeholders in the business, and also 3rd parties we partner with
• Were moving to utilise cloud for many of our applications, so youll be heavily involved in our move for this area of the business
• Form part of one of our feature teams to define and drive their architecture, assist in daily delivery activity and defend your recommendations at senior architecture forums
• Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions

What do we need to see from applicantsWe like people who come from diverse backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered well need to see evidence of the following in your CVs;

• Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies, especially Spring boot, JSON, Kafka as well as RESTful APIs and web services.
• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.
• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD, Selenium).
• Knowledge of java development standard methodologies and patterns with an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability and performant applications.
• Technical understanding of the following: Spring boot, Camel, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.

Heres how youll make a difference:

• Having an excellent understanding in software development lifecycle is key (preferably the Agile Framework) and should be validated through your experience to date
• Write modular, well tested applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale
• Significantly contribute in delivering the strategic solutions for Payment applications
• Ensure software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider engineering community
• Lead team of engineers, mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst crafting opportunities for learning and growth

Would be great if you also experience/ knowledge of following would be advantageous, but please apply still apply if you dont have them

• Experience in the Fraud Domain or Financial Services in general, exposure to cloud, or an understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration
• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

What will you get in returnOn top of our excellent salary & benefits packages, this will be a stimulating and exciting position with plenty of opportunities for career growth and development. Supported throughout you should be encouraged to take the initiative, establish relationshipsand make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues and our communities. At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear pu