Lloyds Banking Group
Software Engineer - Backend
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – Backend
SALARY: £63,152 - £78,940
Location: Bristol
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.
About this opportunity
We're looking for Full Life Cycle Engineers to join our Segments & Propositions Relationships Lab in Bristol. Our Mass Affluent segment includes customers with investable assets ranging from £50,000 to £5 million. With nearly three million Mass Affluent customers, we are dedicated to developing personalized and tailored offerings to provide an exceptional banking experience. Our goal is to deliver a seamless digital experience, offering the right products and services at our customers' fingertips, while maintaining the importance of face-to-face, telephone, and secure messaging services.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you’ll need
- Code using backend technologies (Java 8+, Spring Ecosystem )
- Designing / refining system architecture
- Using cloud platforms and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure etc)
- Database design: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Integration with external services (SOAP, REST, GraphQL)
- Kubernetes and Linux OS
- Exposure to continuous integration pipeline and test automation
- Exposure to public cloud infrastructure
- Gradle/Maven
- Test automation: BDD/Playwright/Cyprus/COESF
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- Building RESTful services or Web UI
- Exposure to Kotlin, iOS, Android, Flutter or Rust
- Experience with Hibernate ORM
- Exposure to Quarkus
- Understanding of networking principles, tools and equipment
- Exposure Linux system admin tools
- Exposure with Python and Big Data technologies including ML
- Exposure to Go
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
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We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A 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!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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