Senior Software Engineer - Next Gen Core Accounts in Manchester

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Next Gen Core Accounts platform team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in transforming our Core Banking Platform by leveraging modern technologies and innovative approaches such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and microservices-based architecture. You'll bring a strong technical background, ideally with experience in building microservice or event-driven systems. Drawing on your expertise, you will propose and establish engineering standards, drive technical excellence, and coach other team members, ensuring they are adopting best practice and designing a secure, resilient platform that is easy to maintain.

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

• Actively contribute to the codebase while collaborating with architects and cross-functional teams to design scalable software solutions.
• Build strong relationships and support team development through mentoring and coaching, with a focus on collective success.
• Develop a deep understanding of the business domain and processes to effectively translate user needs into stories and technical tasks.
• Drive efficient breakdowns of work, ensuring non-functional requirements like security and performance are well considered.
• Partner with the Engineering Lead and other teams to enhance ways of working across the lab by proposing and testing innovative approaches.

• Strong expertise in Object-Oriented Design and back-end development with deep knowledge of Java.
• Solid understanding of software fundamentals such as threading, memory management, debugging, and clean coding practices.
• Proven ability to drive technical delivery and communicate effectively, promote agile ways of working, and mentor others.
• Experience in application and solution design, with a focus on managing technical debt and delivering high-quality engineering outcomes.
• Comfort in both technical and business conversations, with a delivery-focused mindset.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development and test automation.
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design.
• Knowledge of Microservices, Spring Boot, REST protocol, Apache Kafka.
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes for containerized development and deployment.
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

• 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.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

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.