Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 8th December 2023

The successful candidate will provide deep technical expertise to help teams design, develop, test, and implement efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.

Using modern software development practices, patterns, and tools; the successful candidate will join a team building, running, and maintaining applications across front-end and back-end disciplines used by internal and external users.

You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression.

About the role

• Participate in the development of complex technical solutions, managing own workload.
• Provides technical advice and guidance to other software developers, proactively and reactively.
• Takes responsibility for ensuring that all code meets Royal London Group standards, guidelines, and quality gates for given technology.
• Encourages close collaboration with other disciplines within the team.
• Takes an active role on the transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences relating to own area of technical expertise at practice level.

About you

• Development experience in .Net and Azure, successfully delivering change on complex applications.
• Practical experience using Azure in an Enterprise environment.
• Desire to support the wider team.
• Able to communicate at all levels in an engaging and collaborative manner.

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.