Royal London
Senior Java Developer
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Job Description
Contract type: Permanent
Location: A
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 11th April 2026
We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Senior Java Developers to play a central role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focused on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.
About the Role
We are forming a new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our investment product offering.
- We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting 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.
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About You
- Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring.
- Expert in REST API microservice development and event streaming.
- Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases.
- Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms.
- Expert in TDD and left-most automated testing.
- Experienced in low latency, highly performant, optimised runtimes.
- Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
- Thrives with minimal supervision and naturally eager to lead and mentor others.
- Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and standards.
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.
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- 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.
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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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