Software Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Software EngineerSALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780LOCATION: Halifax or EdinburghHOURS: 35 hours, full timeWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. About this opportunity You're a sensible, pragmatic, and self-motivated software engineering professional, with practical experience of API design and development, microservices, and cloud technologies. You've worked as a valued member of agile teams. You have a strong appreciation of engineering principles and patterns and can effectively utilise both to shape solutions. You're opinionated on What Good Looks Like, why that's important, and how to help spread those standards and practices to others. We're building the bank of the future. This vacancy lies at the very heart of this within the Identity and Authentication platform. In ID&A, we strive to give every customer of the Group the strongest possible protection against fraud. It's an interesting, challenging, and dynamic problem space, and we're assembling a best-in-class engineering function to help catalyse this journey. You'll be working with industry leading architects, engineers and technicians as a part of the Authentication lab. You and your team will be responsible for the delivery of robust and scalable software solutions from inception to production, across both public and private cloud platforms. Why Lloyds Banking GroupFrom building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose. What you'll need Software Engineering, ideally with a focus on JavaStrong experience of API design and developmentExperience of working with containerised microservicesA working knowledge of Authentication and Authorisation conceptsExposure to TDD and performance engineering/cloud optimisationA good understanding of Networking & API GatewaysCI/CD, monitoring tools, containers, orchestration & service mesh And any experience of these would be really usefulA secret (or open) love of GolangHave Grug brainNo matter what your current industry or cultural background is, please know that we love diverse people who can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. 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 underrepresented 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 performance related bonusShare schemes including free sharesBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on topA 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.