Software Engineer II

Salary Range £47,120 - £70,680

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our Manchester sites.

What you’ll be doing:

• As a Software Engineer II, you'll 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 solid 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 secure, resilient platforms that are easy to maintain.

In this role you’ll:

• 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.

Why join us:

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for:

• Good expertise in Object‑Oriented Design and back‑end development with deep knowledge of Java (minimum 2 years).
• 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.
• Comfort in both technical and business conversations, with a delivery‑focused mindset.

And any experience of these would be great (optional):

• 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 commitment to inclusion:

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.

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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

Benefits:

• 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.

Company Overview:

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.