TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Fintech): Designing, building, and maintaining stable, scalable, secure, and performant software solutions across both frontend and backend components with an accent on usability, accessibility, and performance. Focus on collaborating with designers, product owners, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end features, mentoring other engineers and supporting the development of the team.

Location: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site in Leeds

Salary: £72,702 - £80,000

Company

Lloyds Banking Group is on an exciting journey to transform and shape finance for good, investing in technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make the Group a great place for everyone.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and maintain stable, scalable, secure, and performant software solutions across both front-end and back-end components.
  • Develop user-facing features using React and Next.js, with a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and performance.
  • Design and build cloud-native services and RESTful APIs, primarily using Java (Spring Boot) and Python.
  • Collaborate with designers, Product Owners, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end features, from UI through to backend services.
  • Contribute to the model execution layer, enabling reliable execution of analytical and regulatory models.
  • Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for both frontend and backend delivery.

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a senior-level software engineer (frontend, backend, or full-stack).
  • Frontend experience building modern web applications using React (Next.js desirable).
  • Backend experience developing services using Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python.
  • Experience designing and consuming APIs.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure transferable).
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and DevOps principles.

Nice to have

  • Full-stack experience spanning frontend and backend development.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Exposure to analytics, data-driven or risk-related platforms.
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.

Culture & Benefits

  • 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.