Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Lloyds Banking Group • Newport, UK • 3d ago

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum
LOCATION: Newport until Q3 then Cardiff
HOURS: Full-time, 35 hours
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at one of our Office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation? This role will be based in the Newport office on Pencarn Way until Q3 when the office will move to Cardiff on John Street.

The role sits within the Transport Platform, which is a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance, and related services including Digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.

In pursuit of our mission, we are on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We’re investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices, and leveraging a new data ecosystem. All using modern frameworks and native Cloud capabilities. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.

As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll design, develop and integrate software features on the product roadmaps that meets customer needs in areas of complexity. Working within a Lab Feature Team alongside Product Owner and Quality Engineers to achieve business and technology outcomes whilst retaining a deep focus on service.

WHERE YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
You should feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through:

Leading on feature development within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over engineering.
Defining complete software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; knowing when it's appropriate to make trade-offs against the target architecture.
Engineering software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt. Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
Participating in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.
Enabling the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices.
Partnering with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety.
Promoting active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps.
Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence, and by expanding your owns skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions.

WHY LLOYDS BANKING GROUP?
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

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. We'll take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE:
To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the below:

Exceptional proficiency in a modern object orientated language preferably .
Deep understanding of the application stack both breadth and depth in building , using frameworks and applying with database interactions (Structured and unstructured).
Experience in designing, developing and testing complex systems in and agile context (utilising orchestration automate), with strong architectural thinking and with an ability to break down ambiguous problems. Showing a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale.
Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.
Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities.
Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments.

WE ALSO OFFER A WIDE-RANGING BENEFITS PACKAGE, WHICH INCLUDES: