Lead Web Application Developer

Royal London Group; Alderley Edge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employer pension up to 14% match

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Lead Web Application Developer to drive a state‑of‑the‑art investments platform from Alderley Park. This hybrid role combines hands‑on coding with leadership, mentoring, and architectural decision‑making across enterprise web apps. You will champion security, performance and scalable front‑end patterns.

The team will operate in a flexible hybrid model, delivering critical digital solutions for customers and business users with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Experience leading web application teams in enterprise environments.
• Strong Angular/TypeScript/HTML/CSS in large-scale apps.
• Proven ability to integrate GraphQL/REST APIs.
• Mentor and lead developers, drive best practices.
• Experience with agile SDLC and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a new investments platform.
• Mentor engineers and foster best practices.
• Ensure security, performance, and reliability of web apps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align tech with business goals.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

HTML

CSS/SCSS

State management

Security best practices

Auth & authorization

API integration

Agile

Mentoring

Tools

GraphQL

REST

Micro-frontends

Web testing

CI/CD

Cloud hosting

Job description

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 02 September 2026

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.

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 left‑most 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.