Royal London
Senior Software Engineer
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Contract type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 12th August 2026
Join Royal London’s Digital area as a Senior Software Engineer where you will play a crucial role in building digital solutions for our customers and business users. You’ll work with talented engineers, analysts, and testers to deliver high-quality solutions, improve existing applications, and raise engineering standards through collaboration, pragmatic design, and great testing.
About the role
- Design, develop, test, and implement efficient digital solutions that meet business and customer requirements.
- Deliver complex changes within your technical area, including assessing impacts on existing applications.
- Document and agree designs in advance, working to agreed standards and ways of working.
- Build to Group engineering standards and quality gates for your technology stack.
- Partner closely with test colleagues to ensure code is thoroughly tested and issues are found early.
- Safely release changes to production environments, supporting troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with the wider team, contribute ideas, and review others’ work to improve overall quality.
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About you
- Expert technical knowledge of C# or Angular.
- Expert in TDD and left-most automated testing.
- Experience of SQL.
- Experience of the full software development lifecycle, and an awareness of agile development practices.
- Can work without supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Keen to continue to develop technical skills in ever-emerging technology stacks.
Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspectives could be a great addition to our team.
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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.
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 recognized and respected – whatever their background.
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