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Lloyds Banking Group · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Newport

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

Lloyds Banking Group is a financial institution focused on helping Britain prosper. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Transport Platform team to design, develop, and integrate software features that meet customer needs while transforming their core technology architecture.

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Responsibilities

Leading on feature development within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over engineering

Defining complete software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; knowing when it's appropriate to make trade-offs against the target architecture

Engineering software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt. Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release

Participating in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes

Enabling the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices

Partnering with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety

Promoting active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps

Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence, and by expanding your owns skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions

Qualification

JavaScriptJavaNode.jsSpringBootReact.jsAPIsWeb ApplicationsCloud environmentsAgile methodologiesMentoringCollaboration

Required

Exceptional proficiency in a modern object orientated language preferably JavaScript or Java

Deep understanding of the server-side or client-side application stack both breadth and depth in building APIs or Web Applications, using Node.js, SpringBoot or React.js frameworks and applying SOLID, RESTful principles or package management with database interactions (Structured and unstructured)

Experience in designing, developing and testing complex systems in an agile context (utilising orchestration automate), with strong architectural thinking and with an ability to break down ambiguous problems. Showing a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale

Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS

Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities

Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments