End Date

Monday 19 January 2026

Salary Range

£70,929 - £106,394

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About the opportunity
We’re seeking a talented Senior Java Engineer to join our team; you’ll be responsible for designing and developing high throughput applications using java with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our customers. You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework and within Group standards and appetite while managing the full software development process within an agile environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and develop applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality.  

• Implement monitoring for applications and analyse health & performance to improve.  

• Be part of cross-functional product engineering team and adhere engineering standards throughout the software development life cycle.  

• Pair with other engineers to review the code considering the quality standards agreed to follow in the team.  

• Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a repository.  

• Collaborate with architects and other senior engineers to produce application/design documentation.  

• Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.  

• Mentor/coach the engineers to deliver high quality applications that are designed for security, testing, maintainability and observability  

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Hands on experience in building enterprise REST API (with open API standards) in Java (min Java 11) and experience with Java frameworks like Hibernate, spring boot, spring core and spring security.  

• Hands-on experience working with Kafka, including experience with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Kafka API. 

• Hands-on experience with SQL and experience working with GCP Cloud SQL and Spanner 

• Experience with TDD practices like automated unit and integration tests and Dev Ops practices like CI/CD  

• Experience in designing and building high volume distributed event driven systems at scale, fault tolerant, resilience and highly observable  

• Experience working with messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub.  

• Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Github actions, Istio Service mesh, Helm, api-gateway, SRE, DORA concepts and metrics and Scalable / NoSQL Databases etc.  

• Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP 

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles

About working for us

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 under-represented 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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.