Hybrid Software Engineer

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £48,987 - £73,481 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, ITSM, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenShift, React, Splunk, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Software Engineer enhancing Loans journey for a banking platform in Chester. Building and maintaining loan processing applications with learning opportunities and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Helping to build, maintain and enhance our Loans journey which process a high volume of all transactions across the UK.
• Working alongside some of the most talented engineers in the industry.
• There will be a huge amount of learning opportunities within this role.

Requirements

• Understanding of application development and familiarity with technologies such as Java (ideally Java 17/21), Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and web services.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, preferably within an Agile environment, with some exposure through academic projects, internships, or personal work.
• Knowledge of development best practices and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts, with familiarity with tools like Jenkins or similar.
• Ability to write simple to complex, maintainable code and a willingness to learn how to build modular and testable applications.
• Ability to learn, troubleshoot and diagnose issues using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Kibana.
• Knowledge of version control systems, especially Git.
• Good understanding of IT service management concepts, such as Change, Incident, and Problem management.
• Experience with agile development practices and an interest in learning about test automation tools and techniques (e.g., TDD, BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Better understanding or interest in container technologies like Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• UI development using React/JavaScript/TypeScript

Benefits

• 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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies