Lead Engineer- Dundee Tech School

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JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer

SALARY: £86,964 to £102,310

LOCATION: Dundee

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 our Dundee Office.

Please note, to make the most of our training, it's essential that you can commit to the start date above and be able to attend the 9 week training programme full time.

About this opportunity

We launched the Dundee Tech School in November 2023 with the first cohort of 12 Junior Developers who underwent a 20-week Engineering training programme before joining their business teams under supervision of the Tech School Lead. Following its' success, we're now looking to recruit approx. 20 more roles that will make up 2 teams to deliver our Gamification initiative.

As part of our Dundee based Tech School cohort, you will be supported in upskilling through a structured 9-week training programme before becoming an integral part of a feature team within our Customer Waterfront Lab evolving our Digital Channels.

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We're building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we're there for customers in the moments that matter. We're bold and we love to experiment. We're not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.

As part of our Dundee based team, you will oversee 2 feature teams evolving our Mobile and Web offerings to improving digital engagement, learning and gamification aspects to provide best in class experience to the customers.

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who can provide hands-on engineering leadership and expertise to a full-stack mobile app team. You will be passionate and experienced in designing and delivering scalable mobile applications and/or API platforms.

What will you be doing with us?

• Lead a full-stack feature team of mobile, API and quality engineers with a focus on predictable delivery and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery.
• Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests.
• Demonstrate leadership for mobile architecture or API and microservice design with deep knowledge in your specialist domain (iOS, Android or API/microservice).
• Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members

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

• Proven experience of modern application and software development approaches including automated testing, test driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control
• A "can-do" attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle
• Knack of identifying new technologies, tools and approaches to help continually improve standards and quality
• Deep expertise in either iOS (Swift-based), Android (Kotlin-based) or microservices (ideally Javacript-based (node.js))
• Firm grasp of testing methodologies (Unit testing, UI testing, automation testing)
• Experience designing and evolving RESTful API contracts
• Confidence to express their own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• JavaScript WebView bridging
• Push notifications
• Understanding of common mobile security risks and corresponding mitigations

It would be desirable to have exposure to:

• Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies
• Experience of successfully implementing and using CI/CD pipelines
• Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, 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
• 30 days holiday, 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.