Job Description

JOB TITLE: Backend Chapter Lead Engineer - Loans Lab
SALARY: \xc2\xa385,255.00 - \xc2\xa3110,290.00 GBP
LOCATION(S): Chester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

The Consumer Finance Platform team will give you the opportunity to work in a forward thinking and diverse team. A team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues through evolving & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank.

The culture we live by is to empower individuals and teams to build multiskilled environments using agile methodologies. Ultimately to deliver outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that enable iterative change to market at pace.

Our lab\'s purpose is to help Britain recover through responsible lending.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Finance Platform as a Back End Engineer Chapter Lead. Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our backend software, also working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with the engineering transformation strategy.

Here\'s where you\'ll make a difference:

• Drive improvements through interventions in Back End Guild / Chapter
• Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions.
• Find and address performance issues.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Identify general improvements and implement backend best practices.
• Collaborate with the product/ design team to iterate the design function and implement the products.
• Collaborate with Backend and DevOps Engineers to build features and experiments.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we\'re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We\'re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you\'ll need -

• Strong experience in Spring, CI/ CD & Springboot
• Experience of building Microservices
• Strong understanding of Rest Services
• Strong understanding of Core java
• Exposure to SOAP
• Exposure to Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON
• Hibernate ORM experience.
• Exposure to Maven
• Exposure to at least one of Liberty, Tomcat or Jetty Containers
• Exposure to open-source technologies and frameworks
• Basic SQL and Database knowledge
• Basic knowledge of XML and JSON
• Agile scrum methodology
• Preferable experience with Python and Big Data technologies including ML
• Preferable experience with public cloud infrastructure

A "can-do" attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects, and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle will be key in this role.

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

Want to do amazing work, that\'s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

Join our journey.

Lloyds Banking Group