Senior Software Engineer, Lloyds
£70.9-106.4k
+ An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance + Share schemes including free shares
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds )
Retail and commercial bank
Open for applications
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£70.9-106.4k
+ An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance + Share schemes including free shares
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Hands on experience in building enterprise REST API (with open API standards) in Java (min Java 11) and experience with Java frameworks like Hibernate, spring boot, spring core and spring security
- Hands-on experience working with Kafka, including experience with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Kafka API
- Hands-on experience with SQL and experience working with GCP Cloud SQL and Spanner
- 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
- Experience working with messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub
- Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Github actions, Istio Service mesh, Helm, api-gateway, SRE, DORA concepts and metrics and Scalable / NoSQL Databases etc
- Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a talented Senior Java Engineer to join our team; you’ll be responsible for designing and developing high throughput applications using java with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our customers
- You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework and within Group standards and appetite while managing the full software development process within an agile environment
- Design and develop 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
Application process
- End Date: Tuesday 16 December 2025
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its current technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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