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Lead Java Developer

Hybrid in Alderley Edge·Added today (last checked 12 Oct)

Royal London

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Overview

Job details

Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Benefits

28 days holiday + bank holidays
Paid annual leave, per the ad.
Pension matched up to 14%
The employer matches what you pay in, per the ad. The legal minimum is 3%.

Requirements

Be near Alderley Edge for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
Have senior-level experience
Lead-level role.

Skills

The role

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.

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.

How you'll work

Contract type: [Permanent]
Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

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 Royal London

Industry: Insurance and pensions
Website: royallondon.com

In their own words

About the company & team

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.

Additional information

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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