Senior Back End 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 specialising in Back End development to join Royal London's Digital Team. You'll use your technical expertise to design, develop, test and deliver high-quality software solutions that support our business and customer needs.

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

About the role

• Design and develop robust, scalable back-end solutions that meet business and customer requirements.
• Deliver complex technical changes, assessing the impact on existing applications and services.
• Design and develop APIs, microservices and event-driven solutions.
• Develop high-quality code, supported by automated testing and engineering best practice.
• Collaborate with engineers, testers, architecture and wider delivery teams to deliver solutions safely into production.
• Review code, share technical knowledge and contribute ideas that improve engineering quality and ways of working.

About you

• Strong enterprise development experience using Java and C#.
• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices, with knowledge of event-driven technologies.
• Experience working with persistence and caching technologies, including SQL Server databases.
• Strong understanding of automated testing practices, and the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to contribute to technical discussions and engineering decisions.
• Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams while taking ownership of your own delivery.

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.