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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
LOCATION: Halifax
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Halifax office
About this opportunity…
As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll take the lead on technical development and delivery at both team and sometimes lab level. In this role, you won't just be writing code – you’ll also have a line management role, working as co-lead with the team Product Owner to ensure everything is delivered on time to the highest standard.
You’ll be responsible for overseeing tech delivery, owning applications, and managing the team to ensure everything runs smoothly. This is an opportunity to combine your technical expertise with leadership, driving projects while keeping the team on track and motivated.
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 do…
Build Robust software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, secure, and accessible using endorsed technologies and best practices to minimise technical debt
Lead and guide the team, focussing on effective task allocation to ensure smooth tech delivery
Engage in code reviews and team ceremonies, helping to plan, prioritise, escalate blockers, and celebrate wins
Look for opportunities to automate repetitive tasks to streamline processes and drive efficiency
Contribute to technical communities, advancing shared capabilities across teams
Own application custodianship by actively participating in incident root cause analysis and applying learnings to improve systems
Mentor early career engineers, helping them to skills and contribute to a strong collaborative team culture
Invest in your growth, continuously developing your technical and agile skills
Ensure governance and accountability for technical assets maintaining high standards across all activities
If you’re looking for a role where you can lead with impact and help shape the future of tech delivery, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll need…
Strong application or data development background.
Essential experience of developing solutions in JAVA Springboot or Quarkus
Current experience within a software engineering role, with a good knowledge of the full development lifecycle
Experience of working as part of an agile team using agile practices and tooling such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence
We would welcome someone that can demonstrate in-progress learning journey towards cloud technology; accreditations (Google Cloud Associate Engineer, Professional Data Engineer, or Cloud Architect) or further continuous development in other cloud technologies.
And any experience of these would be really useful…
Python, GCP DBT and GCP Dataflow
Software design and XP Programming principles
Data engineering, DevOps, test automation
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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
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.