Lead Java Engineer | Everyday Banking

Role: Lead Java Engineer - Everyday Banking

Function: CIO

Grade: E

Location: Hybrid working/Flexible across our key sites

Closing Date: 16 September 2026

At TSB, we’re transforming the service we provide our customers, and technology will be at the forefront of that change. It’s an exciting transformation to an agile environment and we’re investing in a new in-house engineering capability to deliver it – so, if you’re a forward-looking and innovative IT professional, this is your opportunity to be in on the ground floor and help us build the future of banking.

How You’ll Make a Difference

This is a new and exciting role, working in an agile and devops environment, where you will be responsible for crafting, developing, and refining technical components to meet the needs of our customers. You will collaborate closely with senior engineers and other team members to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of products, taking responsibility for your own work from requirements to customer acceptance in production. You’ll develop technical understanding, best practices and provide support for technical problems.

What You’ll Bring
• Experience of writing clean and testable code.
• Ability to translate user stories to functional applications.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical challenges to non-technical audiences.
• Significant engineering experience (minimum of 4 years) with a proven track record of coding in Java11 (ideally Java21) using TDD/BDD.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, spring Integration, Kafka or Confluent stack.
• Experience of working on AWS Cloud, micro services using DevSecOps pipelines.
• Experience of enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring (particularly SpringBoot, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Security, Spring Data).
• Good understanding of Functional Programming (Lambda, Streams) and of Web security.
• Experience of working within scaled agile settings and feature teams.

What we offer in return
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life balance.
• A drive for continuous improvement and development.
• An attractive reward and myTSB benefits package, giving you more of what matters to you.
• A diverse, energising, and collaborative working environment.
• A truly inclusive organisation that values difference, where everyone feels welcome and has access to equal opportunities.
• A career that’s enriching and full of opportunities.

If this sounds right up your street, come, and join our team. We make things happen!

We are TSB. Life Made More
• Please note you will be required to sit a Codility test as part of the selection process

Inclusion matters at TSB. We want our colleagues to feel at home here, no matter their background. Diverse teams are what helps us deliver Money Confidence. For everyone. Every day.

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