Backend Software Engineer

Overview

In this Backend Software Engineer role, you will design and maintain Golang microservices powering financial products at Lloyds. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering and business teams to deliver customer-focused, scalable solutions and contribute to system design and best practices. The position emphasizes building a connected platform, data-driven insights, and secure, resilient services. This is an opportunity to impact financial services at scale within a values-driven, inclusive culture.

Pay / Benefits

• generous pension contribution up to 15%
• annual bonus subject to group performance
• share schemes including free shares
• discounted shopping
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Golang backend services and microservices architectures
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver solutions
• Contribute to system design, architecture, and engineering best practices
• Support deployment, operation and performance of applications in containerised environments
• Enable integrations with leading applications and services and deliver scalable, resilient systems
• Participate in data-driven feature work and improvements across the stack

Key requirements

• Strong commercial experience Backend development in Golang
• Experience building and supporting microservices architectures
• Experience deploying and operating in containerised environments (ideally Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience in agile development environments
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across the application stack (network, server, database)
• Experience building concurrent, distributed applications at scale
• Experience working with DevOps or SRE teams to support production environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for learning, continuous improvement and high-quality software
• strong communication
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• Golang
• microservices
• Kubernetes

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