Senior Software Engineer

Our Business Transaction Banking Platform, Channels Lab teams aim to deliver the highest quality software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting colleague development. This is a software engineering level role within the Lab that will blend deep domain / technical expertise with great passion for mentoring and developing software's in delivering technical solutions to become the bank of the future., Lloyds Banking Group focuses on helping Britain prosper. A Senior Software Engineer who values excellence and demonstrates dedication to delivering world-class solutions is sought. This role in Edinburgh offers the opportunity to contribute to transforming the banking experience for customers. The position involves working with innovative technologies and collaborating with skilled colleagues to produce outstanding results.

What you'll be doing

• Identifying, crafting and implementing technical solutions as part of the ongoing platform engineering, focusing on scaling, efficiency, and performance tuning
• Contributing to technical design discussions to ensure efficient solutions are achieved
• Collaborating in a highly collaborative Engineering team to complete assigned work, showcase progress, and address sophisticated and non-routine problems
• Working closely with Customer Journey Managers and Product Owners to ensure requirements are clearly defined, and tickets meet DoR and DoD criteria, We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.

• Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the entire application stack and exposure to microservices technologies, particularly Java 17, Spring Boot, Maven, Kafka K Stream, as well as RESTful APIs and web services
• Working independently and taking ownership while using your own initiative
• Understanding the end-to-end SDLC thoroughly
• Applying practical experience with agile Development methods, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration/deployment, and Test Automation (BDD), GHE Source code Management, and the E2E software development lifecycle
• Applying knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem management processes, ITIL, and production support tools such as Service Now, and providing production support
• Providing on-call support one week a month for key support and change delivery

What we're looking for

• Proficiency in Java/ JavaScript (Spring, Spring Boot, Node JS)
• Experience with Kafka, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Aurora cloud servers
• Familiarity with relational databases (SQL or Oracle, etc.)
• Knowledge of Websphere / Collective controller / IHS
• Proficiency with DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, Urban Code, Dynatrace, Splunk, and others
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with partners, showcasing qualities such as ethics, trustworthiness, and personal organization
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Practical experience developing Microservices and making them available as REST / SOAP APIs
• Experience in deploying services in on-prem and containerized (Kubernetes) environments
• Experience with Cloud deployments and providing solutions in a hybrid cloud environment

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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

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.