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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £ 53,100

LOCATION: Edinburgh 

HOURS: Full-time 

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week at our Edinburgh hub. 

Drive cultural change at the heart of UK’s largest digital bank 

Within Colleague Waterfront, part of the Insurance Pensions and Investments division of Scottish Widows, we’re obsessed with providing our customers with the very best support, empowering them to make the right decisions to live their best financial lives. We seamlessly blend the latest technologies, with innovations in human cantered design and systems thinking to help Britain prosper through their long-term savings, investments and pensions. As we forge forwards in our mission, we’re looking for a special brand of technical leadership to join our growing tribe of rockstars.  

So, what are we looking for in you? 

You'll use your judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems, and help us to deliver exciting, customer- focused software solutions. 

• You’ll get involved in coaching other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential. 

• You’ll have interpersonal and communication skills, for exchanging ideas and explaining concepts. 

• You'll influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members to help build a strong team culture. 

• You’ll be able to easily articulate complex work to key collaborators. 

What you’ll need:

• Ability to produce high quality, well-tested and robust code, documentation, including OpenAPI specifications

• Ability to build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.

• Strong experience in JavaScript / Typescript, Docker, Jenkins, Git, NodeJS, Jest

• Good experience in Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, Helm and other DevOps tooling.

• Good understanding of Cloud technologies.

• Good experience creating automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines to prove robust and maintainable code.

• Good understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.

• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience with ISTIO, or to have used/be familiar with configuring ingress to Kubernetes clusters 

• Understanding of product lifecycle and RTL processes in an enterprise environment. 

• Understanding of Event-Driven Architecture.

• Understanding of SQL/NoSQL Database management.

Why Lloyds Banking Group  

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. 

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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. 

• 28 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.