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 blends 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-focused solutions and high-quality software. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential as you work efficiently across 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.
- Act as a technical leader within your team and beyond, coaching and mentoring junior engineers.
- Collaborate with product and engineering leads to achieve vision and customer outcomes 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.
- Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across engineering teams to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
- Advocate for quality, supporting teams by leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).

About you
Committed to leadership and growth, you are passionate about coaching and developing others. You demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset. You embrace continuous learning and improvement, and you embody the values and behaviours that foster an inclusive and high-performing engineering culture.

Qualifications
While specific qualifications are not detailed, strong technical expertise and leadership experience in Android development are essential for success in this role.

About working for us
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity. We offer workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility around office attendance, location, and working patterns. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to support applicants with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or neurodivergent conditions.

Our benefits package includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits adaptable to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies