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JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – Frontend (React)

SALARY: £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION(S): 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 the office location noted above.

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter. But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations.

We're looking an experienced & motivated hands-on Software Engineer (Front End) to work on our Backstage framework utilising React / Typescript.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in software or infrastructure engineering, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

Specific activities will include:

• Work collaboratively across our teams to design, build, test, release and support enterprise-class solutions that progress the Lab’s roadmap.

• Contribute to the delivery of our Internal Developer Portal based on Backstage.

• Get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis – leading by example.

• Be calm & resilient under pressure and ensure the team always do the right thing by the customer, whilst appreciating things won’t always go right first time and are not afraid to challenge the ‘norm’.

• Liaise and collaborate with colleagues both within your team, and across teams within the bank.

• Be technology agnostic and are willing to adapt their approach in pursuit of the best solution.

• Show continuous curiosity to learn and develop yourself with emerging technologies and tooling in support of the team requirements.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you’ll need

• React

• HTML & CSS

• NodeJS

• Git / GitHub

• TypeScript

• JavaScript (ES6/ES7)

• Experience with component libraries e.g. Mui

• Jest/React testing library

• Automated functional testing – i.e. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright

• Knowledge of API Consumption e.g. REST

• Passionate about technology and writing clean, maintainable & performant code.

• High level knowledge of any of the Public Clouds – Azure, GCP, AWS

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Playwright

• Backstage.io

• Monorepo

• Eye for design/UX and passionate about improving customer experience

• CI/CD

• Python, Go lang experience or designing CLIs

• Azure Public Cloud knowledge especially (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure API Manager, Azure databases e.g. PostgreSQL or CosmosDB)

• Understanding of Kubernetes

• Platform Engineering / Terraform

About working for us

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’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d 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.

• Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.