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Wednesday 07 January 2026Salary Range
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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £76,000
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office site
About this opportunity
We’re seeking a talented Senior Java Engineer to join our team! You’ll be responsible for designing and developing APIs and applications using Java Sprint Boot or Quarkus with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our colleagues and customers! You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions and development activities comply with Group standards during the full software development lifecycle within an agile environment.
Key responsibilities include:
Design and develop APIs and applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality.
Implement monitoring for applications and analyse health & performance to improve.
Be part of cross-functional product engineering team and adhere engineering standards throughout the software development life cycle.
Pair with other engineers to review the code considering the quality standards agreed to follow in the team.
Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a repository.
Collaborate with architects and other senior engineers to produce application/design documentation.
Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.
Mentor/coach the engineers to deliver high quality applications that are designed for security, testing, maintainability and observability.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
Essential Skills
Hands on experience in building enterprise REST API (with open API standards) in Java and experience with Java frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Core and Spring Security.
Good experience with Python.
Experience with TDD practices like automated unit and integration tests and Dev Ops practices like CI/CD.
Experience in designing and building high volume distributed event driven systems at scale, fault tolerant, resilience and highly observable.
Good knowledge using modern microservices technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh, Helm.
Experience implementing/deploying onto Public Cloud, ideally GCP.
Strong understanding of DevOps principles and tooling.
Any experience of these would be really useful
Java Quarkus.
GKE, APIGEE, Networking & Security products on GCP.
Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka.
Integrating with AI products such as Vertex AI on GCP (Gemini, Workbench).
AI Prompt Engineering.
Google Cloud Certification.
Kubernetes Certification.
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.
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
