Golang Lead Engineer

Golang Lead Engineer

Salary range

£102,864 - £128,580

Location

London, Bristol

End date

Saturday 10 October 2026

Job type

Permanent

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JOB TITLE: Golang Lead Engineer

LOCATION(S): London and Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

We are looking for a Golang Lead Engineer to lead the technical development and delivery of backend services that are reliable, secure, scalable and easy to operate!

This role sits within Software Engineering and offers the opportunity to shape the Group's Mobile Security Core and wider backend capabilities. You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams build high-quality Go services, APIs, integrations and deployment pipelines while driving engineering excellence across delivery teams!

As a senior technical leader, you'll:

• 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.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

Join us and, give us your best and we’ll give you ours. Here, you’ll make a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities, you’ll find them all here.

What you'll need

• Strong Software Engineering expertise, with 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, with the ability to mentor engineers, guide technical decisions and lead delivery through ambiguity.
• Excellent critical thinking, decision making and stakeholder collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and influence outcomes. The

Skills

• Taxonomy identifies relevant skills including Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE & Service Engineering, Technology Leadership, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Coaching & Feedback and Stakeholder Management.

• And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience modernising legacy applications into well-owned backend services.

• Experience within a regulated financial services environment or other large-scale enterprise organisation.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenShift, platform engineering capabilities or internal developer platforms.

• Experience using AI tools responsibly to support software development, testing, documentation or operational activities.

• This is a place for you...

• Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

• We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

• We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

• We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• 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

• Ready to make an impact? Apply today

• Job ID

• 161919

• Agile Working Options

• Job Share; Flexibility in when hours are worked; Hybrid Working

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End Date:

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A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Think all banks are the same? You'd be wrong.

We’re a fast paced, forward thinking business that’s shaping finance as a force for good.

A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Benefits that work for you

Our benefits are designed to support you both in and out of work. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including health insurance, pension, holiday allowance, family leave and flexible working.

• Benefits

• Development and progression

• With us, your development is a priority, and we’ll ensure you have the right tools to grow and learn.

• Development and progression

• Our offices

• Our newly renovated offices boast state-of-the-art tech and top-class facilities to help colleagues to connect, collaborate and thrive in an environment so they can do their best work for our customers.

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• 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'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.

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• Benefits that work for you

• From holiday allowance and flexible working options to private health cover and generous pension contributions, we’ve built a benefits package that works for everyone.

Join us and you’ll have access to:

• Pay and Bonus – competitive salaries as well as bonus aligned to group, business area and individual performance.
• Hybrid working giving you the option to work from home for up to three days a week, extended up to five days a week over the summer period.
• Private medical insurance providing all colleagues with access to quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Generous pension scheme with employer contributions. The more you save, the more we'll contribute to your plan, starting with 9% if you pay in 3% of your salary, going all the way up to 15% if you contribute 6% or more.
• Financial products and colleague offers – you’ll be able to take advantage of all our financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Family leave – from day one you’ll be able to have 52 weeks' leave after your child is born or placed for adoption; six months of th