Senior Backend Engineer: Java/Spring Microservices (Hybrid) in Chester

The Loans & Affordability Platform will give you the opportunity to work in a forward-thinking and diverse team. A team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues through evolving & digitizing the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank. The culture we live by is to empower individuals and teams to build multiskilled environments using agile methodologies. Ultimately to deliver outstanding customer experiences, and by driving innovative technology solutions that enable iterative change to market at pace.

A great opportunity has arisen within the Loans Lab for a Senior Software Engineer. Working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our backend software, also working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You’ll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy and work with the Lead Engineer.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring your skills to our cross-disciplinary teams of engineers, where you’ll have the opportunity to deepen your technical knowledge and understanding in a modern stack, as well as support and lead on developing a quality backend system.

So, what are we looking for in you?

• You’ll use your judgement to combine tooling, libraries and programming languages to solve problems, and help us to deliver exciting, customer-focused software solutions.
• You’ll get involved in coaching other engineers to help them grow and reach their potential.
• You’ll have strong interpersonal and communication skills, for exchanging ideas and explaining concepts.

What you’ll need:

• Produce high quality, well-tested and robust code.
• Able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.
• Strong experience in Microservice Development using SpringBoot.
• Good experience of containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
• Good awareness & understanding of Database design.
• Able to create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
• Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Some experience of JavaScript/TypeScript, DevOps tooling like Harness, Quarkus framework would be a plus.

About working for us:

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. 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. 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey. 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 keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

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.