Lead Web Platform Engineer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; On-site; 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 seeks an expertly skilled Lead Web Application Developer to take a lead role in building a new, state-of-the-art investments platform for customers and business users.

You will be an expert in enterprise web app development using Angular, TypeScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS, with strong focus on state management, security, API integration and modern deployment pipelines. The role also demands leadership, mentoring and agile practices to deliver high-quality software.

Qualifications

• Expert in enterprise Web applications using Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS.
• Strong experience with state management patterns and libraries.
• Security-focused with authentication and authorization best practices.
• Experience integrating API services including GraphQL and REST.
• Experience with build pipelines, cloud hosting, and micro-frontends.
• Experience in testing, including left-most automated testing, and SDLC.
• Leadership experience as a development lead and mentor.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a new investments platform.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across the team.
• Collaborate across product, design and platform teams to ship features.
• Ensure robust security, performance, and maintainability of web apps.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

HTML

CSS/SCSS

State management

Web security best practices

GraphQL

REST APIs

CI/CD / deployment

Agile methodologies

Mentoring / leadership

Job description

Royal London seeks an expertly skilled Lead Web Application Developer to take a lead role in building a new, state-of-the-art investments platform for customers and business users.

You will be an expert in enterprise web app development using Angular, TypeScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS, with strong focus on state management, security, API integration and modern deployment pipelines. The role also demands leadership, mentoring and agile practices to deliver high-quality software.