Lead iOS Engineer Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

Location: London

Please note, the team observes a hybrid working pattern, that involves working in the office 1-2 days a week, with an anchor day in the office on Wednesdays.

Salary: £85,208-106,510 per annum

Further basic salary increases should be expected from July 2023. More information on these increases will be given to the successful candidate.

Benefits also include:

• Annual personal bonus percentage;

• Employer pension contribution (up to 15%);

• 4% flexible cash pot;

• private medical insurance, and;

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays;

This vacancy is in the Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform. Our purpose is to build and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join.

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Lead iOS Engineer working across several cross-disciplinary feature teams providing engineering leadership and expertise. You will be passionate about designing and delivering scalable mobile applications.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with solution architects, UI/UX designers, API development team and proposition managers to refine and implement features

• Act as an authority with knowledge of best practice iOS UI/UX design principles and patterns

• Demonstrate leadership for mobile architecture

• Provide mentoring and supporting for iOS development team members

• Help create prototypes to explore innovative solutions and features

In return, you’ll enjoy an exciting, innovative environment which supports flexible and agile working. You will work in a highly collaborative way and enjoy seeing the impact of your work by crafting digital experiences on our web, mobile and tablet applications that are being used by millions of our commercial customers every day.

With our breadth, reach and diversity, we can offer excellent opportunities for career growth and development, and we are looking for people who can seize those opportunities. You’ll get plenty of support but it’s about taking the initiative, building relationships, and making it happen. Do this and you can help us make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues, and our communities.

About you

We believe that people don’t always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone’s individual skills, experience, and knowledge – it’s what makes you unique!

As such, we encourage applications from candidates with different backgrounds, however, you are more likely to secure an interview, if you could demonstrate the below skills in your application:

Technical Skills

• Expertise in Swift & iOS development

• Proficient in secure application development practices

• Excellent knowledge of Swift and iOS SDK and experience in building mobile applications for iOS

• Strong knowledge of Apple UI design principles, interface guidelines, and patterns

Behavioral Skills

• A “can-do” attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.

In addition, it would be desirable to have exposure to:

• Application security principals, cryptography and secure coding techniques

• Cross-platform frameworks – react native, flutter, ionic

• Java, Javascript, NodeJS

• RESTful APIs and web services

• React / AngularJS frameworks

• Strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools, Git.

• Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies

• Experience of successfully implementing and using CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation (Unit/Integration/E2E testing – Jest/Testing Library/Cucumber/Cypress).

• Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

• Experience with build processes and release automation (Azure/GCP Pipelines, Nexus).

• Confidence to express own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.

• Excellent team working and communication skills.

• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as npm and webpack etc. is advantageous.

About Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group is on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need help to do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we are redefining what a bank needs to be, from the inside out. Our technology, culture, and mind-set is changing. We are embracing what it is to be an engineering-led organisation, with our customers at the heart of what we do.

We’re committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve – where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. If you would like any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please do let us know – we would love to be able to support you showcase your best self.

And we’re proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum.

Together we make it possible!