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Job Title: Senior Front End Software Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:  Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 14th January 2026

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer in Web Development to join our dynamic team at Royal London.  In this role, you will play a crucial part in providing deep technical expertise to help our teams design, develop, test, implement and support efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.

This role is focussed on our Long Term Savings (Pensions) Application stack and forms part of the Long Term Savings value stream.

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.

About the Opportunity

• This role is focussed on our Long Term Savings (Pensions) Application stack and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers. 
• 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 competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve ratios.
• You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within an organisation that values internal career progression.

About the role

• This is a developer role for a Front-end portal application. Enterprise web development experience with Angular is essential.
• A Senior Software Engineer must be able to design & develop complex solutions within their own area of technical expertise. Advance documentation of the design would be to agreed standards.
• A Senior Software Engineer would be expected to carry out impact assessments of complex changes to existing applications.
• A Senior Software Engineer’s code would meet Group standards, guidelines and quality gates for the given technology.
• A Senior Software Engineer would work closely with the test team to ensure their code is thoroughly tested so that issues are identified as early as possible.
• A Senior Software Engineer would safely implement solutions to production.
• A Senior Software Engineer would collaborate closely with other members of the team.
• A Senior Software Engineer would be expected to contribute to the RL software development practice by sharing their ideas and experience.
• A Senior Software Engineer would participate in code reviews of others’ work.

About you

• Experience with Angular is essential.
• Experience in one or more programming languages including JavaScript or TypeScript is essential.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks is preferred.
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle and agile development practices is preferred.
• Experience of Azure DevOps & CI/CD pipelines & Microsoft 365 is an advantage.
• Ability to work without supervision is essential.
• Ability to work as part of a team is essential.
• An enthusiasm to continue to develop one’s own technical skills in ever emerging technology stacks is essential.

About Royal London

We are 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.