Royal London Group Hiring for Senior Software Engineer Job at Macclesfield, England Full Time

At Royal London we believe your difference is our strength and our organisation benefits from the different perspectives that diversity brings. Studies have shown that people from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience isn’t a perfect fit with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

About the role

A Senior Software Engineer will provide deep technical expertise to help teams design, develop, test, and implement efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.

Using modern software development practices, patterns, and tools; the successful candidate will join a team building, running, and maintaining applications across front-end and back-end disciplines used by internal and external users.

Key responsibilities

Participate in the development of complex technical solutions, managing own workload.

Provides technical advice and guidance to other software developers, proactively and reactively.

Takes responsibility for ensuring that all code meets Royal London Group standards, guidelines, and quality gates for given technology.

Encourages close collaboration with other disciplines within the team.

Takes an active role on the transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences relating to own area of technical expertise at practice level.

Criteria Development experience in .Net and Azure, successfully delivering change on complex applications. Practical experience using Azure in an Enterprise environment. Desire to support the wider team. Able to communicate at all levels in an engaging and collaborative manner.

What we offer

We’ve always been proud to reward our employees by offering a number of great benefits including:

A generous group pension scheme (up to 14% matching employer contribution)

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days

Annual company and performance based bonus

Life assurance (up to 8 x annual salary)

Enhanced parental leave policies

Private medical insurance

Employee Assistance Programme – Access 24/7 to confidential health, legal & financial advice

Full details can be found on our benefits page.

About Royal London

Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions and investment company in the UK. Since its foundation 160 years ago, Royal London has supported millions of people to protect and provide for themselves and their families.

At Royal London, our People Promise is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This promise has been at the heart of our approach to hybrid working, ensuring a balance of time working in our offices, supporting the culture of collaboration and inclusion and some working time from home, so we can all continue to benefit from the flexibility this brings. Our hybrid working approach is built around our mutual mindset, thinking about what is good for us as individuals (the ‘me’) and in the context of what is right for our customers, our colleagues and The Royal London group (the ‘we’). Together we belong – collaborate – learn and perform.

Our expectation is that colleagues working in hybrid roles will come into the office for 50% of their time, and the rest from home. We want to be as consistent as we can with our approach but we also appreciate some colleagues need adjustments based on personal circumstances. (e.g. to support a disability, or caring responsibility) and / or may wish to formally seek a flexible working pattern in line with our flexible working policy.

We appreciate the world of work continues to evolve and we will continue to listen to our colleagues views on this whilst ensuring our on-going approach is right for our business and customers

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.