Lead Java Developer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Employer pension matching (up to 14%)

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Lead Java Developer to drive the design and delivery of a new investments platform. You will lead a team of engineers, champion Spring-based microservices, REST APIs, and event streaming with Kafka, while shaping testing and coding standards.

The role emphasizes mentoring, high-performance runtimes, and collaborative agile delivery in a hybrid setup from Alderley Park, with about half time remote work.

Qualifications

• Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Strong experience in REST API microservices and Kafka.
• Proficiency with NoSQL databases (MongoDB) and caching.
• Cloud hosting and containerisation with Kubernetes.
• TDD and automated testing mindset; proactive mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Java development for the new investments platform.
• Mentor and guide other engineers; drive best practices.
• Work in a hybrid model from Alderley Park with remote collaboration.

Skills

Lead Java development

Spring

Kafka

REST API design

TDD/ automated testing

Mentoring/leadership

Low latency optimization

Agile development

Tools

Kubernetes

MongoDB

Job description

Contract type: [Permanent]
Location: [[A]]
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

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.