Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer (Level 5) on the Lloyds Technology Centre backend team, building Golang microservices for a fintech connected-platform, spend analytics and financial product marketplace.

What you'll do

• Deliver clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code; full-stack experience is a bonus.
• Support the development of elegant, performant, maintainable, operable and secure Golang microservices.
• Help design and architect systems and contribute to continuous improvement of the engineering team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to build, measure and learn while creating a world-class product.
• Partner with product and engineering managers to continuously refine and iterate development processes.
• Motivate the team through roadblocks to ensure features ship as effectively as possible.
• Guide design discussions and help the team balance flexibility, expediency, scalability and performance.
• Champion new technologies and promote strong development practices.
• Keep an eye on the future while proactively and pragmatically tackling technical debt.

What you'll need

• Strong hands-on experience in Golang with a proven ability to design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices-based applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Golang.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, REST APIs, database design (SQL/NoSQL), and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working in cloud-native environments using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and CI/CD, with a focus on performance, reliability and clean code practices.
• Experience building microservices, ideally deployed in containers on Kubernetes.
• A solid grounding in agile development practices.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL datastores.
• The ability to diagnose problems across the stack, including client, HTTP/network, server, database and operating system, with sound rationale for decisions.
• Proven experience building large, concurrent and distributed applications.
• Experience developing and running large-scale production environments in partnership with DevOps or SRE teams.
• A genuine interest in working in a fast-paced start-up environment, ideally in fintech or payments.
• A strong appetite for learning and continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• PHP experience.
• Full-stack experience.
• Experience with real-time, low-latency, high-frequency transaction-based systems.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers (for L5).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, hybrid working.
• Application end date: Tuesday 27 October 2026.
• Flexible working options available.