Lead Java Developer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension up to 14%

Private medical insurance

Hybrid 50% home/office

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Lead Java Developer to help build a new state-of-the-art investments platform. The role will be based in Alderley Park with hybrid working (50% home/office) and will require leading a team to deliver high-quality enterprise Java solutions using Spring, REST microservices, Kafka, and NoSQL databases.

You will mentor developers, promote best practices, and contribute to the full software lifecycle in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Expert in REST API microservice development and event streaming with Kafka.
• Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Expert in TDD and left-most automated testing.
• Experienced in low latency, highly performant, optimised runtimes.
• Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• Thrives under little to no supervision.
• An experienced development lead and mentor.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of a new investments platform and related digital solutions.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams across Alderley Park to deliver high-quality software.
• Drive modernisation and architectural excellence to achieve speed to market and cost efficiency.

Skills

Java

Spring

REST API

Kafka

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Kubernetes

TDD

Mentoring

Agile

Tools

MongoDB

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow)

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Contract type: [Permanent]

We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Lead Java Developers to play a lead 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 The Role

• 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 You

• Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Expert in REST API microservice development and event streaming with Kafka.
• Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Expert in TDD and left-most automated testing.
• Experienced in low latency, highly performant, optimised runtimes.
• Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• Thrives under little to no supervision.
• An experienced development lead and mentor.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and emerging technology adoption.

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.

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.