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Tuesday 03 February 2026Salary Range
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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer – Payments Services Platform
SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
LOCATION(S): Birmingham or Edinburgh
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Birmingham or Edinburgh office.
About this opportunity…
We're looking to recruit a Senior Software Engineer to work in our International & CHAPS Lab providing payment options for all of our customers. Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP). This product is being used to deliver key revenue streams as well as enable mandatory compliance. What follows is what you might find our Software Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.
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…
How you’ll make a difference…
You'll be an experienced Software Engineer preferably with International SWIFT and Payments experience with previous knowledge of integrating, introducing, and supporting 3rd Party packages, including bespoke solution configuration and rules-based engineering into a Payments production environment.
You’ll have all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle, ideally within a modern Agile engineering function.
You’ll have good communication & teamwork skills
You'll have good Problem-solving skills within a technical environment.
You'll be able to work with 3rd party supplier to drive defect management
You'll be able to support planning and implementing production changes
Ensuring solutions meet the necessary requirements.
What you’ll need…
Full-stack experience and flexible enough to work on front end or back end tasks
Experience and broad knowledge of modern design patterns (microservice) using modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (Node.js and React.js) as well as RESTful APIs and WebServices.
Experience of leading teams in Cloud projects (GCP preferred)
Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Harness), container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio) and cloud technologies (GDP, OCP)
A deep understanding of GIT source code management and managing change into production
Experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation and how to deliver well maintainable and testable applications in critical environments.
About working for us…
Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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 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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
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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.
