Job Title
Lead Software Engineer
Salary
£69,624 – £104,436
Location
London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds
Hours
Full-time
Working Pattern
Hybrid – at least two days per week or 40% of time at an office site. Disability accommodations are available.
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 Lab supports accounting, reconciliation, and payment integration capabilities across core payment services, enabling compliant, efficient, and customer‑focused processing. The Payments Services Platform (PSP) offers compliant and efficient payment capabilities for LBG, driving innovation so customers can move money confidently, quickly, and securely.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture and delivery beyond a single team.
- Own end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, accountable for quality, resilience, and delivery predictability.
- Lead complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure, and compliant payment solutions.
- Manage cross‑team dependencies, technical risks, and delivery impediments impacting the PSP.
- Balance customer outcomes, regulatory risk, and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions.
- Drive DevOps 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 investing in technology, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong understanding of an entire application stack, breadth and depth, and exposure to microservices technologies (Spring Boot, JSON, Kafka, REST APIs, web services).
- Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, and secure payment services within complex, regulated environments.
- Strong systems and solution design capability, evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature or component.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, improving quality and DevOps maturity at team or product level.
- Deep expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures, and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability, 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 knowledge of Spring Boot, Camel, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud‑based tools – IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.
Benefits
- 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.
Equal Opportunities
We recognise that skills develop in many ways; we welcome applicants with relevant, transferable experience. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a proportionate number of applicants with disabilities, long‑term health or neurodivergent conditions through the Disability Confident Scheme.
How to Apply
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
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