Location
London

Hours
Full-time - 35 hours per week
Hybrid working pattern requiring at least two days per week, or 40% of time, at our London office sites.

Salary
£104,686 - £123,160

About the Role
As a Lead Software Engineer (Android), you will be an advocate for engineering, providing a voice to engineers within your teams and supporting them in resolving impediments and issues. This leadership role combines deep domain and technical expertise with a passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model. You will aim to deliver the highest quality customer-driven software while continually challenging, motivating, mentoring, and supporting your engineering teams. Working within cross-disciplinary teams, you will deliver exciting customer-driven solutions and high-quality software, demonstrating excellent interpersonal and communication skills and efficiently managing the project lifecycle to ensure software operates as intended.

Why Lloyds Banking Group
We are on an exciting journey to transform our Group and shape finance for good. We focus on the future by investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make Lloyds Banking Group a great place for everyone, including you!

What you'll do
- Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are vital to our mission to help Britain prosper.
- Be a technical leader within your team and beyond, coaching and mentoring junior engineers.
- Collaborate with product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab by writing well-factored and tested code.
- Maintain curiosity about technology and how things work, positively influencing the team by demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve delivery.

Experience
- Proven experience as a capable technical lead taking ownership of delivery.
- Strong programming skills with good working knowledge of Kotlin and modern toolsets such as Git, Android Studio, JUnit, Espresso, and Jenkins.
- Diverse technical experience with a proven ability to deliver high-quality applications at scale.
- Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practices is advantageous.
- Experience working effectively across engineering teams to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
- Advocacy for quality, supporting teams by leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.

About you
- Passionate about coaching and developing others in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
- Curious and proactive in learning and applying new technologies.
- Committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Qualifications
- Relevant technical qualifications or equivalent experience in software engineering and leadership roles.

About working for us
We are committed to building an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity. We provide workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including long-term health and neurodivergent conditions, and offer flexibility regarding office attendance, location, and working patterns. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and guarantee interviews for applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria. Our benefits package includes a generous pension contribution of up to 15%, an annual performance-related bonus, share schemes including free shares, lifestyle-adaptable benefits such as discounted shopping, 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and generous parental leave policies.