Senior Java Developer

Company: Royal London
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Location: Alderley Edge
Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working Style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing Date: 14th 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 focussed on delivering a new state‑of‑the‑art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

Qualifications

  • 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 with minimal supervision and naturally eager to lead and mentor others.
  • Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice and standards.

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.

Benefits

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.

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Posted: April 12th, 2026