Job Description

End Date
Wednesday 30 April 2025
Salary Range
70,929 - 106,394
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Summary
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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
SALARY: 70,939 - 78, 810
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
About this opportunity
Are you passionate about full stack development with frontend expertise? This is your chance to join our dynamic team and make a big difference. As a Band E Software Engineer, you will be working on exciting projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

You will be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and continuous improvement. Your role will involve developing and maintaining web applications, implementing new features, and ensuring the highest level of performance and user experience. You will also have the opportunity to mentor peers and junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
Day to day, you'll beDeveloping and maintaining web applications, implementing new features and ensuring the highest level of performance and user experience. Support agile software development to enable continuous improvement within the team. Writing modular, clean, testable applications using design principles and patterns. Significantly contribute to the delivery of the Protection IFA offering. Contributing to levelling up how we design, build, and operate software at scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community. Technically mentoring and developing your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback through code reviews and design documents.

About us
Similar to modern Britain, we are evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. We are growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and grow with us.
What you'll need
We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and exciting ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered, we'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV:Significant experience with React and NodeJS. Strong understanding and experience of designing, building, and operating front end applications (particularly consuming microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems). Experience with testing libraries such as React Testing Library, SuperTest, and PlayWright. Confidence with building, testing, and deploying services into a cloud environment. A DevOps mindset. Experience mentoring peers and junior engineers. Strong understanding of web development principles, including JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and responsive design. Experience with cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. Experience designing, building, and operating services using Cloud Native services from any major Cloud provider. Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers. A good understanding of Git, source code management, and leading change. Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD). Excellent interpersonal and team working skills. Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

And any experience of these would be really usefulExperience with NestJS, Kubernetes, and Docker. Experience building/maintaining CICD pipelines (Jenkins, GH Actions, etc.). Familiarity with GCP.

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!
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.