Contract type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 02 September 2026
We are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Lead Web Application Developer to play a lead role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, a business-critical multi-year undertaking.
- Expert in enterprise Web applications development with Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS.
- Expert in state management patterns and libraries.
- Expert in web application reuse patterns.
- Expert in web application security best practices, authentication and authorization.
- Expert in API service integration including GraphQL and REST.
- Experienced in web applications build pipelines, cloud hosting, deployment strategies including micro-frontends.
- Experienced in web application testing and left-most automated testing.
- Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
- An experienced development lead and mentor.
- Thrives under little to no supervision.
Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and emerging technology adoption.
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- We are forming 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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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.
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.
