Software Engineer in Leeds

Salary Range: £42,744 - £64,116

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Location(s): Edinburgh or Leeds

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 your time, at our Edinburgh or Leeds office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments, including hybrid working expectations, in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity: Want to use your software engineering skills to help protect millions of customers and colleagues? At Lloyds Banking Group, we're continuing our digital transformation and investing heavily in technology, data and security. Within our Chief Security Office, the Insider Risk Management team plays a critical role in helping keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe!

We're a collaborative team of insider risk analysts and software engineers who work together to improve how we identify, investigate and manage insider risk. We combine software engineering, analytics and behavioural insights to deliver the Group's Insider Strategy, support data-led decision making and contribute to industry-wide conversations on insider risk!

We're looking for a Software Engineer with strong front-end development experience to help us develop innovative tools and capabilities. This is primarily a front-end engineering role, with approximately 60% of your time focused on designing, building and enhancing user-facing applications. The remaining time will be spent supporting back-end services, APIs and integrations that underpin these solutions.

As a Software Engineer, you'll:

• Build and enhance user-facing applications that improve analyst workflows, case management and risk investigations.
• Design and develop detection capabilities and software solutions that help identify potential insider risk events.
• Explore emerging technologies and third-party solutions, bringing new ideas and challenging existing approaches.
• Improve processes through automation, analytics and modern engineering practices.
• Collaborate across the team to share knowledge, develop engineering capability and contribute to innovation initiatives, hackathons and technical communities.

What you'll need: We're looking for software engineers who can demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:

• Software Engineering: Developing high-quality, reusable and maintainable software solutions using modern programming languages, frameworks and engineering practices.
• Technical Delivery: Delivering reliable technology solutions that meet user needs and support business outcomes.
• Problem Solving: Analysing complex challenges, identifying root causes and creating practical, scalable solutions.
• Collaboration: Working effectively with engineers, analysts and stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
• Experience developing web applications using technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React or Java.
• Experience integrating APIs into modern, data-driven applications.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS or Azure.
• Interest in data analysis and using data to identify patterns, anomalies and opportunities.

We know skills can be developed in many different ways. If your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement listed, we'd still love to hear from you.

And any experience of this would be really useful:

• Ethical and responsible use of AI and machine learning technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Git source code management.
• Complex SQL query development.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Agile delivery approaches including Scrum and Kanban.
• Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

About working for us: Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We're committed to creating an environment where 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 introduce a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health condition or are neurodivergent through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Just let us know what you need.

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

Ready to make an impact? Apply today and help us build innovative technology that protects our customers, colleagues and business while developing your career in an inclusive, supportive and forward-looking engineering environment.

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'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.