Lead Software Engineer - Savings Lab

End Date Sunday 04 January 2026 Salary Range £92,701 - £169,043

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

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Salary: £90,440 - £106,400
Location: Edinburgh
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 Edinburgh 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…

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards via multiple channels.

• Lead a self‑organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that delight our customers and contribute to our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Be a technical leader within your feature team, providing day‑to‑day line management, as well as providing leadership in the wider Lab and community, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers, helping them to grow.
• You’ll lead and inspire teams to explore, adopt and responsibly integrate AI‑driven solutions to achieve great customer outcomes and improve our engineering experience.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to realise the Lab’s vision and deliver customer outcomes through robust, scalable, and maintainable services that underpin exceptional customer experiences.
• Be curious about technology and look to foster a culture of innovation. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What we’re looking for…

• A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery, helping to grow our junior engineers capabilities and understanding of target architectures and patterns.
• Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP.
• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus & REST APIs, hosting microservices in a container orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications ong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.
• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner‑sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.
• Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
• Any experience of mobile native development would be beneficial

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.

We also offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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 initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career…