Lead Software Engineer

End Date Wednesday 31 December 2025

Salary Range £92,701 - £169,043

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Title Lead Software Engineer

Salary £90,440 - £106,400

Location Chester or Manchester

Hours Full-time

Working Pattern Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Chester or Manchester office.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever‑changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

In the Consumer Lending business, we pride ourselves on delivering industry‑leading customer journeys through engineering excellence. We're seeking Software Engineering Managers to join our Credit Cards Engineering Team. You'll be instrumental in developing our web‑based Internet Banking system, accessible across web, mobile, and tablet platforms.

As part of the Cards Engineering Team, you'll create software that powers our Internet Banking system, enabling customers to apply for credit cards, handle balance transfers, add cardholders, and increase credit limits. We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer with extensive experience in the full software development lifecycle, a positive attitude, and a collaborative spirit.

• Develop:
  Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
• Lead:
  Provide clear technical direction and take the lead. Line manage and coach a feature team with responsibility for up to 10 engineers.
• Collaborate:
  Work closely with your team and the wider product and engineering group to build effective working relationships and deliver product‑led solutions.
• Innovate:
  Define and champion new tooling, principles, practices and patterns. Encourage and lead comprehensive solution design.
• Agile Practices:
  Working in agile environments, participating in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, and using tools like JIRA

• Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks (Java 17+, React, Redux, JavaScript, Type Script, HTML5, CSS3, Spring Boot and relational databases)
• Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience of test first development and unit testing with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, Pact, Cypress and Playwright.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and build pipelines, using tools such as Github, Harness, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, Grafana and Dynatrace. Take ownership and responsibility for the lifespan of the things you contribute to. A “you build it, you run it” attitude.
• Experience in managing engineers to deliver and helping them learn and grow.

• Proficiency designing, building and operating containerised cloud native applications in production. Experience with GCP, Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

• 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, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing…