Software Engineer

We're looking to recruit a Software Engineer to be part of our Payments Services Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.

Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being an experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change. As part of these teams, you'll be expected to demonstrate and apply outstanding software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

As a Software Engineer, you'll:

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java & Spring Boot microservices as well as a good understanding of modern engineering toolsets like Kubernetes and Jenkins.
• Knowledge of java development standard methodologies and patterns with an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability and performant applications.
• You understand quality engineering and can work in the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.
• Technical understanding of: Spring boot, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka, WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience in Banking domain with experience of working in BACS payments scheme, Faster Payments scheme or Cash and Clearings schemes.
• Exposure to monitoring tools and dashboards for automated monitoring.

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
• 28 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. 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.