Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

End Date Saturday 07 January 2023 Salary Range £81,928 - £153,615 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 . Job DescriptionLead Software Engineer London or Edinburgh based role (please only apply if able to work in this location at least 1 day per week).Salary & Benefits: London: £81,928 - £102,410 annual base salaryEdinburgh: £70,784 - £88,480 annual base salary On the top of the annual guaranteed salary, we also offer annual personal bonus, up to 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also provide our colleagues with number of freehealth and well-being offerings including life events & stages, disability support and generous parental / adoption leave policies.*** Annual salary increase and improved Rewards Package has been confirmed for 2023 ***Who is Lloyds Banking GroupAt Lloyds Banking Group were committed to transforming and redefining The UKs largest Digital Bank for our 18 million digital customers we have across our brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.LBG is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, were redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft atrue engineering-led organisation.Commercial Banking division has a rich heritage of supporting businesses and the economic prosperity of the nation, primarily focused on UK businesses and those with strong links to the UK.About the role Were creating exciting opportunities within the Working Capital Lab to improve customer experiences for our Commercial Banking clients for years to come.With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals to join us on this journey. Working alongside our partners in the Commercial Bank will put you at the heart of the digitisation agendafor both clients and colleagues.Were looking for someone who is passionate, inspiring and customer-obsessed, ensuring that the team are always focused on the priorities that will deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues.Were hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success.Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge.What will I be responsible forAs a Lead Software Engineer for Working Capital as well as creating, building, supporting and improving our software, youll also be responsible for guiding and leading our software engineers to collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams and colleaguesto achieve this. As an experienced engineer youll champion software engineering practices that align with architectural and group strategies and coach/mentor your team to deliver a quality product.Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy where we are making it simpler, safer, faster and more sustainable for clients to borrow through their channel of choice. Creating whenever, wherever optionality through on and off bank routes. Oneof our main challenges is to digitise our client and colleague experience and youll play a key part in achieving that.Our Software Engineers should have skills and experience that enable them to design and create innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world. Understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key. We employ a left-shift paradigmand have a passion for quality over all else.Encouraging the right culture is key and youll embrace a Fail Fast, Learn Faster approach. Experimenting new ways of engineering and adopting a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.Essential skills & experience:

• Sound experience in using and adopting a wide range of engineering practices and tools including feature team or component team delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment and Test Automation, GHE source code management and the E2E software development lifecycle.
• A proven background in Software Engineering, producing quality artefacts.
• Strong experience of both React and Java/NodeJS (spring or other framework) and microservices architecture.
• Good knowledge of Javascript and SQL/RDBMS/NoSQL.
• Experience developing with APIs.
• A good level of technical maturity and be familiar with cloud-based tech with a firm grasp of emerging technologies.
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing engineering colleagues in a line management capacity.

Desirable skills & experience

• Experience in cloud based development, namely containers, container orchestration and associated development/design patterns.
• Experience of Azure, Google or AWS Cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Typescript.
• Experience of BDD.

What type of personal skills do we look forBrilliant people and communication skills! Youll be comfortable working with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues within multi-disciplinary teams. Youll take a collabor