Lead Software Engineer

Job description:

Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 20th August 2026

 

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer to join Royal London’s Digital Area. In this role, you’ll use your deep technical expertise to help design, develop, test and implement high-quality software solutions that meet business and customer needs. The main technical skills would be .Net (C#).

About the role

• You’ll lead your engineers to provide high quality solutions in a collaborative, empowered team who are constantly looking to improve and grow.
• You’ll lead the delivery of complex technical solutions within your area of expertise.
• You will work closely with architecture and Front end teams to design best solutions with the strategic plan in mind with you feeding into that strategy.
• You’ll provide technical advice, guidance and support to software engineers across the team supporting and mentoring to support development.
• You’ll contribute to our software development community by sharing ideas, reviewing others’ work and helping to drive continuous improvement.

About you

• You’ll bring strong technical knowledge in .Net (C#) with experience of Azure, Typescript or Angular being an advantage.
• You’ll have a good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing and implementation.
• You’ll be confident leading technical delivery, reviewing others’ work and providing guidance to software engineers.
• You’ll be comfortable managing your own workload while helping to schedule, allocate or support work across the wider team.
• You’ll have experience working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams and managing dependencies with other teams.

You’ll bring an awareness of agile development practices and a continuous improvement mindset.

You’ll be a positive role model for the Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate and Achieve.

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.