Software Engineer (Javascript)

End date

Tuesday 13 February 2024

Salary range

£66,861 - £100,292

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Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – Homes Platform

SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290

LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds

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 Halifax or Leeds Office

About this opportunity…

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose - to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of Mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active Mortgages. We have placed Mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers.

Are you ready to join our Homes Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation?

Within the Homes Platform we're on a journey to transform our core technology and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. Over the last 2 years we have launched new digital journeys on modern JavaScript frameworks, developed detailed suites of customer journey and analytics, transitioned workloads onto the Cloud and incrementally modernised and simplified our technology estate, whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to autonomously deploy changes to production themselves.

Do you want to drive cultural change at the UK's largest digital bank?

You would play a key role working collaboratively with other lab roles to create empowered Teams who are motivated to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

It's an exciting time to join us as we're investing in our people, data and platforms with £3bn over the next three years. We'll give you training in our change approach, a support network through our Agile community and the opportunity to develop your career here.

So what are we looking for in you?

• You're a dynamic and adaptable individual – able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances
• You've a well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience
• A natural facilitator and decision-maker, you'll enable collaboration across all fields within the Lab
• You'll be a skilled negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver
• As a leader and motivator you'll nurture team members to create a high performing team culture
• You'll lead, direct and control the delivery of benefits for our customers & colleagues
• You'll shape and lead major change initiatives which implement business strategies successfully
• And you'll influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members

What will you bring?

• Strong engineering background with proven experience in modern web technologies, especially; React.js, Redux, React Hooks, Server Side Rendering, Typescript, HTML, CSS.
• Strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices, TDD/BDD, automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics etc.
• Experience across the entire SDLC from inception, through build to production
• Problem solving, written and verbal communication, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of effective cloud architecture solutions.

What else could you bring with you?

• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases
• Good working knowledge of containerisation – e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Hosting

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 where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more. Join our journey!