Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer (Level 4) at Lloyds Technology Centre, working within the Financial Wellbeing Platform to lead technical development and delivery at team level as an individual contributor specialist.

What you'll do

• Lead technical development and delivery at team level, working unsupervised and leading smaller engineering-focused initiatives.
• Make accurate effort estimates for any change.
• Perform code reviews and mentor junior team members.
• Help promote sound engineering practices and work alongside team members to architect, design and implement technical solutions.
• Be a technical leader within and outside your team, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.
• Work with product and engineering leads to define strategy and design solutions to deliver the target cloud architecture.
• Define architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems spanning adaptive infrastructure domains at digital scale.
• Partner with Enterprise, Security, Data and Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
• Lead activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
• Translate varied technology requirements into relevant solutions.
• Communicate and influence collaborators with little or no technical knowledge on the art of the possible through technology.
• Develop for microservices deployment with CI/CD pipelines, working with the DevOps tools team.
• Manage releases and deployments to production and troubleshoot in production.
• Help build the collective capability of the platform community and improve collaboration and cross-team learning.

What you'll need

• 9+ years of relevant experience in design, development and architecting complex software solutions.
• 8+ years of experience working as a hands-on software developer on end-to-end solutions.
• 6+ years of experience designing and developing micro-front ends and microservices.
• 6+ years of experience working in large financial services, preferably banking.
• 4+ years of application design experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 2+ years of experience with Google Cloud, Azure Cloud, AWS or a comparable cloud service provider.
• Experienced with the full software development lifecycle and relevant frameworks.
• Proven track record with Spring Boot and/or Quarkus frameworks, Git workflows, testing (TDD, mock objects) and DevOps toolchains.
• Designing and developing microservices using Spring Boot, Quarkus and reactive programming with Spring Boot.
• Java and J2EE development expertise; RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and tooling such as ReactJS, Redux and Webpack, and modern toolsets such as test automation, Kubernetes and Jenkins.
• Experience with REST APIs.
• Experience of microservice and micro front-end design and container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
• Cloud deployment experience.
• Phenomenal teamwork and communication skills, with team leader or mentoring experience.
• Experience building and deploying microservices with strong debugging experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, databases and GCP cloud.
• Expertise in tools such as Dynatrace, CI/CD, GCP cloud deployment, Curl and Postman.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with messaging and integration frameworks such as JMS, MQ and Kafka.
• Experience with releases and deployments to production, and troubleshooting in production.
• Ability to multi-task and work independently to meet committed deadlines.
• Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problems.
• Strong architecture skills with a good working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, DevSecOps principles and designing solutions at scale.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Proficient experience leading activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
• Established systems engineering or solution architecture experience, with appreciation of software engineering methods such as Behaviour and Test Driven Development.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
• Appreciation for architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate or software patterns.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Terraform, Istio and Helm charts.
• Understanding of how and where third-party products could be appropriate, and knowledge of technology purchasing processes and best practice.

Details

• Hybrid working; flexible working options available.
• Based in Hyderabad Knowledge City (LTC).
• Colleagues based in the Islands must be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries and would need to consider relocation to undertake Ring-Fenced Bank roles.
• Application end date: Wednesday 11 November 2026.