Senior Java Developer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer matching pension up to 14%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London in Alderley Edge is seeking experienced Senior Java Developers to help build a new state-of-the-art investments platform over several years.

Join a team forming in Alderley Park with hybrid work 50% at home and 50% in the office, focusing on modernising technology, speed to market and cost efficiency.

You will work with enterprise Java, microservices, cloud hosting and containerisation, and TDD within an agile lifecycle, while mentoring others and driving best practices.

Qualifications

• Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring.
• Expert in REST API microservice development and event streaming.
• Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases.
• Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms.
• 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 with minimal supervision and naturally eager to lead and mentor others.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and standards.

Responsibilities

• Form new engineering capability in the Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution for our investment product offering.
• We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.
• Modernising our technology to realise ambitions, achieve speed to market and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.

Skills

Spring

REST API

Microservices

Event Streaming

NoSQL Databases

Cloud Hosting

Containerisation

TDD

Low Latency

Agile SDLC

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

“It feels good to have a career with real purpose.”

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

We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Senior Java Developers to play a central 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.
• Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases.
• Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms.
• 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 with minimal supervision and naturally eager to lead and mentor others.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and standards.

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.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.