Full Stack Software Engineer
Recruiter
Lloyds Banking Group
Listed on
26th March 2019
Location
Edinburgh
Salary/Rate
£45477 - £53056
Type
Permanent
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Our Protection Lab is embarking on a journey to create an excellent experience for our General Insurance and Protection customers through our newly initiated value streams..Want to know more?
Our aim is to create a visionary engineering culture that will push boundaries to support the business in delivering high quality, efficient and impactful outcomes for customers across the Scottish Widows digital estate.
We're active partners in a number of accelerator communities including Startupbootcamp, Accenture Fintech Labs, Codebase and Fintech Scotland. These Innovation partnerships allow us to work collaboratively with start-ups on experiments across a variety of disruptive technologies.
Recent use cases in 2018 include IoT smart home devices to support risk reduction, AI predictive Underwriting, on demand Insurance with dynamic pricing and Health and Wellbeing apps to drive customer engagement.
About the role:
Your role as a Full Stack Engineer is important in the future of our product development. You'll be able to shape the way we design, build, test and deploy using cutting edge technology.
On a day to day basis, this will mean being part of an engineering team who will:
* Launch new financial products
* Launch new digital marketing initiatives - promotions
* Extend the functionality of our existing web and mobile applications to attract and retain customers
As a Full Stack Engineer, your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being an experienced member of our wider Scottish Widows Engineering team. As part of these teams, you will be expected to demonstrate and apply exemplary software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment.
What you'll do:
* Write modular, well tested front-end applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale
* Contribute to setting the strategic direction for how front-end applications are developed within the team
* Ensure software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider engineering community
* Understand and apply industry best practices, foster knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist, and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate
* Mentor and develop junior front-end engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst creating opportunities for learning and growth
* Create focus on delivering business value through industry standard engineering methods and principles
* Ensure front-end applications are fast, secure and work across all manner of devices and viewports
What we need from you:
* Understanding of the entire application stack, deep and broad knowledge, and significant exposure to modern web technologies, especially; Node.js, HTML5, CSS3 and REACT.js
* Have a strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools (Git, JIRA)
* Previous experience in an enterprise environment with automated build/test/release processes, source code management (Git) and change-management (JIRA)
* Experience in building high-performing and secure front-end code
* Previous experience with large-scale development projects
Join us:
If this is you, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference.
Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.
Benefits include:
* Car or car allowance of up to £4,080 per year
* Discretionary bonus between 15-30% of base pay
* Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash
* Private Medical Insurance
* Pension, where we will contribute up to a max of 13%
* Share plans
* 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
