Software Engineer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent UK financial services provider is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team in Alderley Edge. This role involves developing solutions in Java and Spring as part of their new Pensions platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in enterprise Java development and microservices. The position offers a hybrid working model and the chance to contribute to an innovative technology solution within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise Java development and Spring frameworks required.
• Must have experience in developing REST APIs and working with microservices.
• Familiarity with persistence layers and relational databases essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions within area of expertise.
• Conduct impact assessments of changes to applications.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance software development practices.

Skills

Enterprise Java development

Spring (Core & SpringBoot)

REST APIs

Microservices development

Agile development practices

Tools

Kafka

NoSQL databases

Job description

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Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 19th August 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 skilled and experienced Software Engineer with expertise in Java development tojoin our team. As a 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.

The successful candidate will have a real impact into how Royal London develop our applications and will provide a blend of both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression. This role is focussed 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 solutions within own area of technical expertise.
• Carries out impact assessment of simple changes to existing applications.
• Contributes to solution design work.
• Writes code that meets Group standards, guidelines and quality gates for given technology.
• Thoroughly tests all changes to ensure any issues are identified as early as possible.
• Will support the safe implementation of solutions to production environment(s).
• Collaborates closely with other members of the team.
• Contributes to software development practice by sharing ideas and experience.

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.
• Experience of agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Can work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Keen to develop technical skills in emerging technology.

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.

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