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Job Description
Senior Software Engineer
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 11th May 2026
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Protection team, working on business‑critical applications that support our customers and colleagues.
You’ll bring strong C#/.NET experience and play a key role in designing, building and supporting high‑quality software solutions. You’ll work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary team, contributing to solution design, code quality, testing and safe delivery to production.
About the role
- Design and develop complex software solutions within the Protection application stack.
- Assess and implement changes to existing systems, ensuring quality and stability,
- Write clean, well‑tested code that meets agreed standards and quality gates.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement.
- Support safe and reliable production releases.
About You
- Strong C#/.NET development experience in an enterprise environment.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
- Comfortable working in agile teams and collaborating with others.
- Able to work with a high degree of autonomy and technical ownership.
- Experience of Java, Angular, SQL Server, Azure cloud servers and exposure to Azure DevOps pipelines could prove.
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, and 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.