Senior Software Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Architecture

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

£72,702 - £88,858

Newport / Cardiff

Full‑time, 35 hours

Hybrid; at least two days per week or 40% at the Newport or Cardiff office.

Join our Transport Platform team and help shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation. The role sits within the Transport Platform, a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer‑focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance and related services including digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and the wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.

In pursuit of our mission, we are on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We are investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices and a new data ecosystem. We use modern frameworks and native cloud capabilities, embedding Dev Ops and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.

• Lead feature development within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over‑engineering.
• Define complete software solutions that are pragmatic and clear; know when to make trade‑offs against the target architecture.
• Engineer software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt while adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
• Participate in team ceremonies to understand work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, manage external dependencies and impediments.
• Lead design discussions, create shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participate in code reviews, find reuse while being mindful of dependencies, identify automation opportunities and set appropriate development practices.
• Partner with peers and senior engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap, promoting common solutions and fostering reuse.
• Promote application custodianship by participating in incident root‑cause analysis, elevating security, maintenance and resilience posture and addressing compliance findings, waste, risks and gaps.
• Support building a strong team by mentoring early‑career engineers, conducting technical interviews and fostering a learning culture through personal actions.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we are inspired by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. We invest billions in our people, data and tech to transform how we meet the needs of our 26 million customers.

• Exceptional proficiency in a modern object‑oriented language, preferably JavaScript.
• Deep understanding of the server‑side application stack, building APIs, Node.js frameworks and applying RESTful principles with structured and unstructured database interactions.
• Experience designing, developing and testing complex systems in an agile context with orchestration automation and strong architectural thinking.
• Experience working on public cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services).
• Experience acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adopting new working ways or developing technical capabilities.
• Experience working within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership, contributing to communities of practice and delivering commitments.
• Experience being part of a full end‑to‑end engineering team: shaping solutions from requirements through design, development, testing, deployment and long‑term ownership, including out‑of‑hours support to safeguard service continuity.

We focus on ensuring we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity. We are disability confident and welcome applications from under‑represented groups.

• 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
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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