Lead Java Developer at Royal London Group

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

19 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java Development, Spring, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cloud Hosting, Kubernetes, TDD, Automated Testing, Agile Development, Software Development Lifecycle, Development Lead, Mentoring, Emerging Technology

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Job Title: Lead Java Developer Contract Type: Permanent Location: Alderley Park Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 27th Oct 2025 We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Lead Java Developers 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, an undertaking that is expected to take several years. About you Expert in enterprise Java development with Spring. Expert in REST API microservice development and event streaming with Kafka. Expert in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. Expert in cloud hosting and containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes. 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 under little to no supervision. An experienced development lead and mentor. Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and emerging technology adoption. About the Opportunity 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. 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.

Responsibilities

Lead Java Developers will play a key role in building digital solutions for customers and business users. The focus will be on delivering a new investments platform over several years.