Senior Java Developer - Backend

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company in Alderley Edge is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join their innovative team. This hybrid role focuses on developing solutions for a new Pensions platform using enterprise Java technologies, contributing to a significant technology transformation. The ideal candidate will possess strong Java and Spring expertise, as well as experience in REST APIs and agile practices. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a generous pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Essential experience in Java and Spring frameworks.
• Ability to implement optimized services with low latency.
• Ability to work as part of a team and without supervision.

Responsibilities

• Develop complex solutions in the area of technical expertise.
• Implement code that meets quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with team members and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Enterprise Java development

Java and Spring (Core & SpringBoot)

Microservices development of REST APIs

Automated testing frameworks

Agile development practices

Tools

Kafka

Relational database systems

NoSQL databases

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Java Developer - Backend

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 22nd Sept 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 Senior Software Engineer in Java Development to join our dynamic team at Royal London. As a Senior 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.

We will give you the opportunity to grow your career within a team focused on promoting internal career progression. This role focuses on our exciting new Pensions platform and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by 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

• Develops complex solutions within own area of technical expertise.
• Carries out impact assessment of complex changes to existing applications.
• Documents and agrees design in advance and to agreed standards.
• Takes responsibility that all code meets Group standards, guidelines and quality gates for given technology.
• All code is thoroughly tested to ensure any issues are identified as early as possible, working closely with the test team.
• Will safely implement solutions to production environment(s).
• Collaborates closely with other members of the team.
• Contributes to software development practice by sharing ideas and experience.
• Will participate in code reviews of others' work.

About you

• Enterprise Java development experience with Java and Spring (Core & SpringBoot) is essential.
• Experience in microservices development of REST APIs is essential and event streaming with Kafka is advantageous.
• Experience in persistence and caching layers, relational database systems is essential, NoSQL databases is advantageous.
• Understanding of low latency, highly performant, optimised service implementation.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Experience of agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• 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 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. 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.