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Software Development Engineer
Job ID: 010069
Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £59,600 Dependent upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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Lending Software Development Engineer
As a Lending Software Development Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative engineering team responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and evolving our mortgage applications while supporting the wider strategic direction of the Group.
You’ll play a key role in the design, build, test, implementation, and support of the core systems and integrations that underpin the origination and servicing of our mortgages. You’ll be working in a complex, evolving technology landscape where reliability, quality, and customer outcomes matter.
We’re looking for experienced software engineers with strong technical capability who are keen to apply their expertise to deliver meaningful change.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and document software and system configuration, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and adhere to development and quality standards
- Build and maintain scalable, supportable applications across our lending platforms
- Analyse existing systems and codebases to diagnose and resolve defects efficiently
- Participate in peer reviews of designs, code, and testing artefacts to maintain high engineering standards
- Collaborate closely with architects, analysts, product owners, and wider engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions
- Perform impact analysis on requirements and proposed designs to ensure safe and effective change
- Deliver work using Agile practices (Kanban, Scrum), providing transparent progress updates and contributing to continuous improvement
- Support live production systems, ensuring stability and timely resolution of incidents and issues
- Continuously develop your technical and domain knowledge through internal training, knowledge sharing, and self-directed learning
How You’ll Do It
You’ll bring strong experience in one or more core technologies used within the Group’s lending technology landscape, such as:
- Cobol
- C# / .NET
- PL/SQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle Forms
- Java
In addition, you’ll ideally have experience in or exposure to:
- System and solution design
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices
- Working in environments that balance legacy platforms with modern engineering approaches
What You’ll Bring
- Demonstrable experience in a software engineering role
- The ability to interpret complex technical and business information and communicate it clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within IT delivery and/or production support environments
- An understanding of system maintenance, change delivery, and operational support
About our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
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