Software Engineer

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Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.

About the team:

The role is within the Sales and Trading Lab within the Markets Division of Group Transformation. The team are responsible for all front office systems from real time pricing to electronic trading and real time risk management across a variety of asset classes.

What would you get involved with?

You'll work with partners to advocate engineering excellence and deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles

You'll ensure platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices

You'll support the engineering community by providing deep domain and technical expertise and providing a voice to engineers to identify and support the resolution of issues

You'll ensure technical debt and releases are prioritised accordingly.

You'll be able to continually develop themselves with industry standard methodology methods and tooling used across their engineering teams.

You'll be well versed with modern technologies like cloud and containers, Microservices, distributed architecture and passionate about agile, lean development practices, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE.

At Lloyds Banking Group our aim is to create a forward-thinking engineering culture that supports the business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for customers.

The role of our Principle Software Engineers is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.

We hope you'll be able to...

Deliver the highest quality customer driven software whist continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the teams.

Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.

Showcase excellent interpersonal and communications skills whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended.

Work hands-on alongside engineering colleagues to understand and develop their own technical domain knowledge and takes responsibility for their actions.

Exercise responsibility, autonomy and judgement within broad, but well-defined parameters.

Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well-defined, complex and often non-routine.

Be a quick learner who can learn and adapt to new technologies being used within Lloyds and the wider industry whilst bringing those around them on the same journey.

Understand the importance of quality and hence create and implement approaches, guidelines, principles defined by themselves and their Engineering and Chapter Lead peers.

Drive the success of Lloyds Engineering Chapters, Communities and Guilds whilst resolving impediments and issues.

Continually develop themselves with industry standard methodology in order to advance the direction of Software Engineering in Lloyds.

Skills we'd expect you to have

5+ years in a low latency electronic trading environment

Strong OO Skills

Experience of developing using modern UIs

Experience with latency reduction techniques

Working experience in streaming, messaging and RESTful APIs

Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools - experience with UrbanCode and Team City would be beneficial

Demonstrated knowledge of common design patterns such as MVVM, IoC, etc

Demonstrated experience in Multi-threading

Experience with working Capital Markets Front Office technology is preferred, in particular with knowledge of pricing rates derivative products.

Bachelors of Computer Science or equivalent degree

Experience working in an Agile environment

Leadership Level of Development and Accountability

At this level both roles are leadership level and blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and show great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model.

What will you get in return?

In return you'll benefit from a competitive salary and generous out of hour's payments on top of which we'll provide:

An on target performance bonus of c.20%

A generous pension contribution

30 days leave plus bank holidays

A 4% flex cash pot to spend on benefits (or take as cash)

Private health cover

Share schemes including free shares

On top of our team ethos we're genuine about both equal opportunity and our colleagues representing the communities we serve - developing and advancing the best in our people.

We're genuine about providing equal opportunity as well as our people representing the communities we serve and have a culture built around developing and advancing the best of our people.

Sound like your ideal next workplace?

So if you have the skills we're after and playing a key role in our ongoing support and development appeals then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you...