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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Lloyds Banking Group
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,929.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, JavaScript (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Cloud Computing, Database Design, Software Engineering, Software Systems, TypeScript, DevOps Tools - Open-source, Spring-boot, Backend, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Production Code, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2859571434-senior-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
 * Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.
 * Strong experience in microservice development using Spring Boot.
 * Good experience with containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
 * Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
 * Good awareness & understanding of database design.
 * Create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
 * Understand the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.
 * Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience working as part of an agile team., * Experience of JavaScript/TypeScript, DevOps tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

## Description

* Work collaboratively to create, build, support and improve backend software, closely with product and engineering teams.
 * Act as a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with the engineering transformation strategy.
 * Coach other engineers and support their growth.
 * Use judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems and deliver customer-focused software solutions.


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