Back End Software Engineer

End Date

Monday 24 March 2025

Salary Range

£66,861 - £100,292

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Lloyds Banking Group

ROLE TITLE: Back End Software Engineer – Adobe Experience Manager

LOCATION: Halifax or Leeds – hybrid working two days per week in the office & three days from home

SALARY & BENEFITS: £71,000pa to £86,691pa (experience dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

FLEXIBILITY WORKS: We’re extremely flexible employers, offering a range of options to suit your lifestyle including flexible hours, flex-summer holidays, flex-bank holidays, great parental support and a real focus on finding work-life balance!

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing 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. You’ll work within the Channels Enabling platform, which is responsible for a range of our externally facing websites across multiple brands, for commercial banking and retail banking customers. This is an exciting opportunity to help embed the use of Adobe Experience Manager into the bank, supporting our continued digital transformation.

What exactly will you focus on?

This is a highly hands on technical role implementing the best practices for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Content Management. Working in a cross-disciplinary team you’ll turn business requirements into reality!  Our Engineers are passionate about ensuring the services, both internal and external have; extreme reliability, security, resiliency, architectural simplicity, as well as continually seeking to find improvements.

You’ll focus on back-end web development using Adobe Experience Manager and Java, taking requirements from Business Analysts in the platform and translating those into working website functionality & content.   You’ll use modern Agile software engineering practices including DevOps & utilising cloud services.  You’ll also use GitHub, Cloud, Jira, Confluence & Microsoft Teams. You’ll also help mentoring more junior technical members of the team and act as a senior developer within the platform. 

About you

• Highly skilled in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and will have experience working as a senior software engineer with a focus on back-end web development

• A broad understanding across AEM related domains, exposure to GIT & GitHub, DevOps, Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams with a high level of experience of product evaluation.

• Intermediate to Good hands-on skills in Java/J2EE

• Comfortable developing AEM components, services and workflows.

• Good understanding in OSGI, JCR, Sling and other AEM layers.

• Exposure to cloud technologies would be a plus as we are Cloud first.

About working for us

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.  We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.  We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? 

Apply today and find out more!

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 keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

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.