Lead Web Application Developer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension match

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Lead Web Application Developer to lead the creation of a state-of-the-art investments platform at Alderley Park, with hybrid working 50% at home. You will mentor teams, shape architectures, and drive best practices across the SDLC in an agile environment.

The role demands deep expertise in Angular/TypeScript, cloud hosting, and secure, scalable web applications. You will lead development efforts, collaborate with product and operations, and continuously adopt

Qualifications

• Expert in enterprise Web applications development with Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS.
• Expert in state management patterns and libraries.
• Expert in web application reuse patterns.
• Expert in web application security best practices, authentication and authorization.
• Expert in API service integration including GraphQL and REST.
• Experienced in web applications build pipelines, cloud hosting, deployment strategies including micro-frontends.
• Experienced in web application testing and leftmost automated testing.
• Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• An experienced development lead and mentor.
• Thrives under little to no supervision.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and emerging technology adoption.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

HTML

CSS/SCSS

State management

Web app security

API integration (GraphQL/REST)

Build pipelines & cloud

Testing (leftmost)

Agile practices

Mentoring/leadership

Job description

We are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Lead Web Application Developer 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, a business-critical multi-year undertaking.

Job description

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 28 September 2026

About the role

• Expert in enterprise Web applications development with Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS.
• Expert in state management patterns and libraries.
• Expert in web application reuse patterns.
• Expert in web application security best practices, authentication and authorization.
• Expert in API service integration including GraphQL and REST.
• Experienced in web applications build pipelines, cloud hosting, deployment strategies including micro-frontends.
• Experienced in web application testing and leftmost automated testing.
• Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• An experienced development lead and mentor.
• Thrives under little to no supervision.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and emerging technology adoption.

About you

• 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.

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.