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Senior Software Engineer

Hours Per Week: 35

Contract Type: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 18 November 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join Royal London's Digital Team. You'll use your technical expertise to design, develop, test and deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business and customer needs.

Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll take ownership of complex technical solutions while helping to maintain and improve engineering standards and ways of working.

About the role

• Design and develop robust, scalable software solutions that meet business and customer requirements.
• Deliver complex technical changes, assessing the impact on existing applications and systems.
• Produce clear technical designs and documentation, working closely with architecture and wider delivery teams.
• Develop solutions in line with agreed engineering standards, quality gates and best practice.
• Collaborate with engineers, testers and other teams to support effective testing and safe deployment into production.
• Review code, share technical knowledge and contribute ideas that improve engineering quality and ways of working.

About you

• Strong software development experience using .NET and C#, with experience of Azure, TypeScript and/or Angular advantageous.
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing and implementation.
• Experience designing and developing robust, scalable applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to contribute to technical discussions and engineering decisions.
• Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and managing dependencies with other teams.
• Understanding of software design principles, automated testing and modern development practices.
• Comfortable taking ownership of your workload and delivering complex technical solutions.

If you feel you'd be a great fit for Royal London but don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply.

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 recognised and respected - whatever their background.

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