Lead Software Engineer
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Job Title: Lead Software Developer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing Date: 29th March 2026
Royal London are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Lead Engineer to join our Digital area. The successful candidate will join one of our Squads developing new features and improvements within the Digital area, where you will play a lead role in building digital solutions for our customers and business users.
About you
- Expert working in Angular.
- Expert working in .Net (C#).
- Expert working in SQL environment.
- Expert in TDD and left-most automated testing.
- Proficient in utilising Azure DevOps.
- 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 the Opportunity
In this role, you will be the Lead Engineer, where you will help us on our journey developing Digital Solutions by:
- Support the day to day running of the application(s), ensuring deployed services are resilient, compliant, and secure.
- Respond to incidents and requests, ensuring we manage our services within SLA.
- Deploy new Azure services and infrastructure via CICD pipelines, in a resilient, cost-effective fashion.
- Work with the squad to help deploy and maintain the application services, including the code, pipelines and tests.
- Lead the Design and Development of complex solutions for application(s) owned by your squad.
We recognise that no candidate will meet every single requirement listed, and we warmly encourage you to apply regardless. We’re committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspective could be a valuable addition to our team.
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. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
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.