Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) in Edinburgh

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share.

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong! We’re an innovative, constantly evolving business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Lloyds Banking Group is rapidly becoming digital-first, leading in the UK with over 12 million online and almost 8 million mobile banking customers. There's a big opportunity here for you to join our Front-end Engineering team and take part in this transformation. As an experienced team member, show your strong software skills and mentor junior members. You'll thrive in a flexible, collaborative setting where your work on web, mobile, and tablet apps directly impacts millions every day. We're offering great growth opportunities, but it requires you to take initiative, build relationships, and make things happen. Your efforts can positively affect our customers, colleagues, and communities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Writing modular, well-tested full stack applications that stay easy to maintain as our codebase and business scale.
• Ensuring our software aligns with existing frameworks, patterns, and practices across the broader engineering community.
• Consistently using the most effective methods in our industry and sharing your knowledge to help solve complex business problems.
• Focusing on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles.

Why join us?

We’re investing billions in our people, places 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:

• A proactive approach and ability to independently start projects, working successfully with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of Node JS, React Typescript, and responsive web design.
• Strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools like Git.
• Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation, especially using tools such as Jest, Cucumber and Playwright.
• Strong knowledge of build processes and release automation, including using DevOps Pipelines, Nexus, SonarQube, and AquaSec.
• Experience working with Private/Public Cloud (GCP, Azure, and OpenShift).
• Strong grasp of the software development life-cycle, from inception through build to production.
• Excellent team working and communication skills.

This is a place for you: 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 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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to do the best work of your career? Apply today.

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.

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.