Senior Node Engineer Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

Benefits: Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We’re a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 20 million active online customers across our three main brands – including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We’re building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

Where will this role sit?

In Intelligent Automation we are committed to the mission of automating the routine whilst supercharging our understanding, to deliver a seamless experience for our customers and colleagues. We’re a diverse group of people. Software Engineers, Robotics Specialists, Cognitive Developers, Data Scientists, Conversation Designers, Natural Language Engineers and many more. We come from a variety of backgrounds across the globe, but we all share in the vision of the untapped potential of human and machine intelligence.

Cognitive Natural Language systems are a channel that mimic human interaction to help scale and augment human expertise, bringing information to customers and colleagues in a timely, natural and useable way – perfect in the shape of Virtual Assistant chat bots for Customer Service use cases. By pairing smart people with smart machines, we build conversational interfaces (text or voice) which not only assist our customers and colleagues but also undertake tasks for them. However, our aspirations and roadmap, are keen to take this proposition much further.

What will I do?

Our goal is to help you develop in a way that fulfils you, and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

• You’ll aim deliver the highest quality customer driven software.

• Work in cross-disciplinary teams showcasing your excellent interpersonal and communication skills whilst efficiently working to ensure software operates as intended.

• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework.

• Provide specialised training or coaching!

• Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for change.

What we’re looking from you

• Excellent Node.js skills (Node.js should be your primary coding language)

• Experience with Full Stack (Express, React).

• Experience with non-relational databases such as MongoDB

• Experience with agile development and practices such as Continuous Integration and Delivery.

• What are the nice to haves?

• Infrastructure /deployment strategies.

• Cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure

• Containers at scale: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Helmfiles

• Experiences and understanding of Microservices / service mesh, reverse proxy and API Gateways

What you I get in return?

We’re dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential.

As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcomed and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We’re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Together we make it possible!