JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION: Edinburgh & Leeds

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING 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

Colleague Lab sits at the intersection of colleague and customer experiences across IP&I. We're on a values led mission to reimagine the way our customers interact with us, and the tools and experiences our colleagues are empowered with when helping them. By reducing failure demand, increasing self-service and automating processes, through technology, systems design, AI, and human centred design, our Lab works cross-channel across IP&I to make change happen, at pace.

Contribute to designing, building code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect. You'll help solve problems and overcome challenges around our pensions & investments products, helping to personalise data and increase customer engagement with our products. Working in one of our cross-disciplinary teams engineers will have the opportunity to develop their technical knowledge and understanding as well develop, practice, and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role.

As a Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in the future of our product development, shaping the way we design, build, test and deploy using innovative technology. You'll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to create empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise value to customers.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you'll too.

What you'll need

Able to help design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
Proven experience in JavaScript development (ideally Node.js, React or Angular).
Some understanding of containerised services (e.g. Kubernetes).
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.
Any experience of Java and Python development would be a plus.

And any experience of these would be really useful

A dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances.
Familiar with microservice development and understand how this works.
Knowledge of creating front end applications and optimising them to provide the best experience for our colleagues and customers.
Influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

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: