Java Developer

Royal London; Over Alderley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company in Alderley Park seeks a skilled Java Developer to join their new engineering team. The role involves building innovative technology solutions to support investment products. Candidates should have expertise in enterprise Java development, REST APIs, and cloud platforms. This hybrid position offers great workplace benefits, including 28 days of annual leave and a competitive pension scheme.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experienced in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Skilled in REST API microservice development.
• Knowledgeable in persistence and NoSQL databases.
• Familiar with cloud and containerisation platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experienced in TDD and agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a new technology solution for investment products.
• Collaborate with a newly formed engineering team.
• Contribute to modernising technology for competitive advantage.

Skills

Enterprise Java development with Spring

REST API microservice development

Event streaming with Kafka

Persistence and caching layers

NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Cloud and containerisation platforms like Kubernetes

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Agile development practices

Working with minimal supervision

Team collaboration

Job description

Job Title: Java Developer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 28th Nov 2025We are seeking highly skilled and experienced Java Developers to play a crucial role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

About you

• ર્બસ experienced in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Experienced in REST API microservice development and event streaming with Kafka.
• Experienced in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Experienced in cloud and containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Experienced in TDD and left-most automated testing.
• Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• Works with minimal supervision.
• Thrives as part ց part of a team.
• Keen to develop new skills.

About the Opportunity

• We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our investment product offering.
• We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.
• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.