Lead Software Engineer, Lloyds
£69.6-104.4k
+ An annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
2 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Be an early applicant
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£69.6-104.4k
+ An annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies, especially Spring boot, JSON, Kafka as well as RESTful APIs and web services
- Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, and secure payment services, ideally within complex, regulated environments
- Strong systems and solution design capability, with evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature or component
- Demonstrated technical leadership, setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, and improving quality and DevOps maturity at team or product level
- Deep expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures, and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability, and recoverability
- Clear ownership of live service health, including incident response, root‑cause analysis, and preventative resilience improvements
- Ability to scale technical impact by mentoring engineers, influencing stakeholders, and improving platform‑level ways of working
- Technical understanding of the following: Spring boot, Camel, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS
- We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Enterprise & Accounting Lab to develop and deliver innovative payment solutions and services for our customers and business
- The Enterprise & Accounting Lab delivers and supports accounting, reconciliation, and payment integration capabilities across core payment services, enabling compliant, efficient, and customer‑focused payment processing
- Our mission in the Payments Services Platform (PSP) is to offer compliant and efficient payment capabilities for LBG. We drive innovation to ensure customers can move money confidently, quickly, and securely. The PSP is a vital part of Group Payments, serving the entire group
- Provideing technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture and delivery beyond a single team
- Owning end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, accountable for quality, resilience, and delivery predictability
- Leading on complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure, and compliant payment solutions
- Managing cross‑team dependencies, technical risks, and delivery impediments impacting the Payments Services Platform
- Balancing customer outcomes, regulatory risk, and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions
- Driving DevOps maturity across teams through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and quality controls
Application process
- End Date: Monday 27 July 2026
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, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
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 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.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), 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)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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