Lead Software Engineer

End Date

Sunday 30 August 2026

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Working at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape, you'll design, develop and deliver core agentic AI services and platform capabilities that support a wide range of business use cases. You'll collaborate closely with product teams, architects and engineers across the organisation to ensure solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards.The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on engineering and will include:Designing and evolving platform and systems architecture for AI-driven services.Developing and delivering high-quality, production-grade software and infrastructure.Partnering with teams across the bank to enable and accelerate adoption of AI capabilities.Contributing to technical strategy, engineering best practice and platform standards.Driving innovation and thought leadership within a fast-moving AI environment.

Job Description

Experience: 9-15 years
Location: Hyderabad
Job Type: Full Time

Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge and can match our pace. People who love to push boundaries, make change happen and challenge the status quo. Sound like you?

What we’re looking for?

Essential Skills & Experience
AI & Agentic Systems
Experience designing and delivering AI-powered solutions, including agentic workflows, tool integration, and multi-agent architectures.
Familiarity with AI frameworks, emerging trends, and industry best practices.
Understanding of AI evaluation, monitoring, and observability approaches.
Knowledge of deploying AI solutions in cloud-native environments.
Engineering & Platform
Strong Python development skills.
Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Experience designing scalable cloud-native systems.
Understanding of CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.
Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration, and DevOps practices.
Familiarity with security, authentication, and authorisation patterns.
 

Essential Behaviours
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Creativity and curiosity in problem-solving.
Critical thinking and sound technical judgement.
Customer-focused mindset.
 

Desirable Skills & Experience
Experience with additional programming or scripting languages.
Knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
Understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, and training concepts.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with DevOps tooling and practices.
Knowledge of security and authentication frameworks.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.