Lead Software Engineer

Location: Greater London

End Date Friday 12 June 2026

Salary Range £84,624 - £126,936

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Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary .

Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Lead Software Engineer

SALARY: £84,624 - £105, 780

LOCATION(S):
London

HOURS:

Full-time

WORKING PATTERN :
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Enterprise & Accounting Lab to develop and deliver innovative payment solutions and services for our customers and business.

The Enterprise & Accounting Lab delivers and supports accounting, reconciliation, and payment integration capabilities across core payment services, enabling compliant, efficient, and customer‑focused payment processing.

Our mission in the Payments Services Platform (PSP) is to offer compliant and efficient payment capabilities for LBG. We drive innovation to ensure customers can move money confidently, quickly, and securely. The PSP is a vital part of Group Payments, serving the entire group.

Provideing technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture and delivery beyond a single team.

Owning end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, accountable for quality, resilience, and delivery predictability.

Leading on complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure, and compliant payment solutions.

Managing cross‑team dependencies, technical risks, and delivery impediments impacting the Payments Services Platform.

Balancing customer outcomes, regulatory risk, and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions.

Driving Dev Ops maturity across teams through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and quality controls.

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for?

Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies, especially Spring boot, JSON, Kafka as well as RESTful APIs and web services.

Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, and secure payment services , ideally within complex, regulated environments.

Strong systems and solution design capability , with evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature or component

Demonstrated technical leadership , setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, and improving quality and Dev Ops maturity at team or product level.

Deep expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures , and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability, and recoverability.

Clear ownership of live service health , including incident response, root‑cause analysis, and preventative resilience improvements.

Ability to scale technical impact by mentoring engineers, influencing stakeholders, and improving platform‑level ways of working.

Technical understanding of the following:
Spring boot, Camel, Maven, Git Hub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

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