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JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Perl and JavaScript)

SALARY: £53,073 - £58,970

LOCATION: Watford

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 Watford office.

About this opportunity

Tusker is part of Lloyds Banking Group and is passionate about helping customers achieve greener, more balanced mobility through market-leading vehicle benefit schemes.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We’re an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We’re committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for Tusker car website for more information.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll use your strong knowledge and expertise in a variety of methodologies and toolsets to assist with designing, building and unit testing code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect. Working in one of our cross-disciplinary teams you’ll have the opportunity to develop your technical knowledge and understanding as well as develop, practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role. You’ll also join and attend Communities of Practice, Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer-to-peer mentoring.

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:

• Good knowledge of the Perl programming language

• Good knowledge of the JavaScript programming language

• Experience with automated unit / integration testing

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Develops personal capabilities using formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as required.

• Identifies shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, then uses established change management programmes to deliver prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services. Reviews non-compliance issues within current IT Security processes, systems and procedures, and works with guidance to ensure solution of ad hoc problems within the assigned unit and/or discipline.

• Performs designated supplier management activities to deliver own prescribed outcomes and/or provide support to others by using existing systems and protocols.

• Navigates a wide variety of existing processes, procedures and precedents to interpret data and identify possible answers. Uses product specifications to design test procedures and standards.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience with architectural design patterns

• Experience in database design and development (Oracle and/or PostgreSQL)

• Experience integrating with APIs and version control (Git)

• Self-motivated to complete allotted tasks

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Meets customer needs related to simple products and services while following standardised protocols.

• Analyses customer needs and defines and delivers prescribed products by performing designated development/engineering activities using established systems. Keeps track of risk parameters and identifies and reports any major deviation to more senior colleagues while working within established risk management systems.

• Provides primary supervision to a team performing transactional work or supervises a small group performing junior professional tasks. Responds to individual and team objectives and invests in improving personal performance by growing own skills and capabilities, coaching others when required. Investigates questions related to existing programmes, processes and procedures.

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.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

• 28 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.