Lead Software Engineer

7 days ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Royal London Full time £60,000 - £100,000 per year

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 20th November 2025
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join out dynamic team at Royal London. In this role, you will play a crucial role in providing deep technical expertise to help our teams design, develop, test, implement and support efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.

The successful candidate will have a real impact into how Royal London develop our applications and will provide a blend of both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

This role is focussed within Chief Operating Office and our Pensions stack and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers.

About The Role

  • Leads the delivery of complex technical solutions within own area of technical expertise, managing own workload, and developers in the team.
  • Provides technical advice and guidance to other software developers, proactively and reactively.
  • Takes responsibility for ensuring that all code meets Group standards, guidelines and quality gates for given technology.
  • Takes responsibility for ensuring technical solutions are safely implemented to production environment(s) without impact to internal or external customers.
  • Encourages close collaboration with other disciplines within the team and with other teams.
  • Takes an active role on the transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences relating to own area of technical expertise at practice level.

About You

  • Experience with Azure Cloud technologies is a must.
  • Experience with .Net is essential.
  • Enterprise experience, working across the full software development lifecycle.
  • Deep technical knowledge of one or more programming languages.
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of design principles and patterns.
  • Can manage own workload whilst scheduling and allocating work to other developers.
  • A growth mindset with the ability to lead a team, support, coach, and mentor others.
  • Able to communicate at all levels in a collaborative manner.
  • Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, and an awareness of agile development practices.

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.

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