Software Engineer
Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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Salary: | £55,755 to £61,950 per year |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
Location: | London, London, EC2Y 5AS |
Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 137571_1751622517 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
SALARY: £55,755 - £61,950
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office.
About this opportunity
We're already the UK's leading Digital Bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our brands. Now we're on a journey to build the bank of the future, for which we're investing £3bn across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers!
The Platform Engineering team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group, you'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations.
We're looking for an experienced and passionate Software Engineer (backend) to work on our flagship Internal Developer Platform within our Golden Paths Feature teams.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience as a software engineer working as part of a team to build performant and maintainable backend solutions. The candidate will also have a passion for technology and a commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.
What you'll do
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Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance our Internal Developer Platform
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Deliver features, from prototype to production, ensuring they are well tested, secure, and meet our engineering standards.
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Collaborate with colleagues from across the team business, including Senior Engineers and other Subject Matter Experts.
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Make suggestions for the product roadmap to ensure we're delivering the right features for our customers.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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!
Who are we looking for
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Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance our Internal Developer Platform
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Deliver features, from prototype to production, ensuring they are well tested, secure, and meet our engineering standards.
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Collaborate with colleagues from across the team business, including Senior Engineers and other Subject Matter Experts.
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Make suggestions for the product roadmap to ensure we're delivering the right features for our customers.
What you'll need
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Extensive experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python
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Extensive hands-on experience building solutions for the public cloud
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Significant experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code best practices employing Hashicorp Terraform
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Experience with serverless compute and containerisation platforms
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Quality is part of everything that you do, including robust test and release automation.
It would be great if you also had
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Hands-on experience building solutions for Google Cloud, particularly using Big Data services
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Passionate about building the best possible developer experience for our engineers
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Experience working with and building CI/CD pipelines
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Knowledge of building secure solutions
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Good working knowledge of the industry concepts of Internal Developer Platform and Golden Paths or Paved Roads
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme