Lead Software Engineer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual insurance company in the UK is seeking a Lead Software Engineer specializing in web development. The role includes leading technical solutions, providing guidance to developers, and ensuring adherence to coding standards. This position offers hybrid working and opportunities for career progression within a dynamic team focused on technology innovation in financial services. Competitive benefits and a collaborative work environment are also provided.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading complex technical solutions.
• Proactively provide technical advice to other developers.
• Ensure code adherence to group standards and quality gates.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of technical solutions and manage team workload.
• Encourage collaboration within the team and with other disciplines.
• Actively transfer knowledge and share expertise with others.

Skills

Enterprise web development experience with Angular

JavaScript or TypeScript experience

Experience with automated testing frameworks

Knowledge of Agile development practices

Ability to work independently

Team collaboration skills

Eagerness to develop technical skills

Job description

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer - Web Development

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 1st December 2025

We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

We are the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three value streams: Long Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long Standing Customers & Annuities. These roles form part of the Long Term Savings value stream.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Software Engineer in Web Development to join our dynamic team at Royal London. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in providing technical expertise to help our teams design, develop, test, and implement efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.

The successful candidate will have a real impact into how Royal London develop our applications and will provide a blend of both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression. This role is focussed on our exciting new Pensions Application stack and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers.

providing the best technology solutions to our customers.

About the 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.
• We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our financial product offering.
• We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.

About the role

• Leading in the development of complex technical solutions, managing own workload and that of the developers in the team.
• Providing technical advice and guidance to other software developers, proactively and reactively.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring that all code meets Royal London Group standards, guidelines, and quality gates for given technologies.
• Encouraging close collaboration with other disciplines within the team and with dependent teams.
• Taking an active role on the transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences relating to own area of technical expertise at practice level.

About you

• Enterprise web development experience with Angular is essential.
• Experience in one or more programming languages including JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle and agile development practices.
• Can work without supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Keen to continue to develop technical skills in ever emerging technology stacks.

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 colleaguesis 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.