Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £72,702 - £80,000

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

This is your opportunity to bring your software engineering experience — whether front‑end, back‑end or full‑stack — to a larger stage, working with modern, cloud‑native technology on high‑impact platforms that support regulatory risk and analytics across Lloyds Banking Group.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape user‑facing experiences, influence API and service design, and contribute across the stack, depending on your strengths and interests.

You’ll work in a cross‑functional feature team, combining strong hands‑on engineering capability with leadership through influence, code quality and mentoring.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Designing, building and maintaining stable, scalable, secure and performant software solutions across both front‑end and back‑end components.

• Developing user‑facing features using React and Next.js, with a strong focus on usability, accessibility and performance.

• Designing and building cloud‑native services and RESTful APIs, primarily using Java (Spring Boot) and Python

• Collaborating closely with designers, Product Owners and other engineers to deliver end‑to‑end features, from UI through to backend services.

• Contributing to the model execution layer, enabling reliable execution of analytical and regulatory models.

• Participating in and leading code reviews, architectural discussions and team ceremonies across the full stack

• Supporting and improving CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for both frontend and backend delivery.

• Promoting reuse, automation and reduction of technical debt.

• Taking shared ownership of live services, including incident support and continuous improvement.

• Mentoring and supporting the development of other engineers within the team.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need

We know no one is an expert in everything, so we’re looking for strength in either front‑end or back‑end engineering, with the ability and curiosity to collaborate across the stack.

Specifically, we’re looking for:

• Strong experience as a senior‑level software engineer (frontend, backend or full‑stack.)

• Frontend experience building modern web applications using React (Next.js desirable.)

• Backend experience developing services using Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python.

• Experience designing and consuming APIs.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure transferable.)

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and DevOps principles.

• Ability to understand complex business problems and deliver production‑ready solutions.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.

And any experience of this would be really useful:

• Full‑stack experience spanning frontend and backend development.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure‑as‑code.

• Exposure to analytics, data‑driven or risk‑related platforms.

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.

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.