Golang Lead Engineer

Salary: £44,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience building and operating production backend services in Go, including testing, concurrency, code quality and maintainable service design
• Experience designing and delivering microservices, APIs, integrations and distributed systems, balancing performance, resilience, security and maintainability
• Strong DevOps and operational engineering capability, including CI/CD, automated testing, release practices and production support
• Experience building and operating containerised services, with knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and modern cloud deployment approaches
• Strong leadership and coaching skills, including mentoring engineers, guiding technical decisions and leading delivery through ambiguity
• Critical thinking, decision-making and stakeholder collaboration skills, including the ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and influence outcomes
• Experience modernising legacy applications into well-owned backend services would be useful
• Experience in regulated financial services or another large-scale enterprise organisation would be useful
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenShift, platform engineering capabilities or internal developer platforms would be useful
• Experience using AI tools responsibly to support software development, testing, documentation or operational activities would be useful

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, build, release and support of complex backend services and shared platform capabilities
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, technical leadership, reusable patterns and modern software engineering practices
• Build resilient, observable and secure services that perform effectively in production environments
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, SREs and Security specialists to translate requirements into practical technical solutions
• Mentor engineers, support capability growth and contribute to engineering communities and standards
• Champion automation, operational excellence, reliability, secure coding and continuous improvement

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Golang
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Mobile
• OpenShift
• Security
• microservices

More:

Were Lloyds Banking Group, and our purpose is to help Britain prosper. Were transforming our Group and investing in our technology, workplaces and colleagues to shape the future of finance. As a Golang Lead Engineer in Software Engineering, youll help shape our Mobile Security Core and wider backend capabilities, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership. The role is full time, based in London or Bristol, with a hybrid working pattern requiring at least two days per week or 40% of your time at an office site. The salary is £84,624–£128,580, dependent on location and experience, and we offer flexible working options, including flexibility in working hours and job sharing. Benefits include a pension contribution of up to 15%, an annual performance-related bonus, share schemes including free shares, lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies. Were committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and provide reasonable workplace and recruitment-process adjustments. We offer career development opportunities and an inclusive environment where colleagues can learn, grow and make a difference.

last updated 40 week of 2026