Skills

Java NoSQL MongoDB Kubernetes Databases Software Development Agile Microservice Spring Kafka

Job Specifications

Job description:

Job Title: Java Developer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 10th Oct 2025

We are seeking highly skilled and experienced Java Developers to play a crucial 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.

About you

Experienced in enterprise Java development with Spring.
Experienced in REST API microservice development and event streaming with Kafka.
Experienced in persistence and caching layers, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
Experienced in cloud and containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes.
Experienced in TDD and left-most automated testing.
Experienced in agile development practices and the full software development lifecycle.
Works with minimal supervision.
Thrives as part of a team.
Keen to develop new skills.

About the Opportunity

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.

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.

About the Company

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Proudly customer owned since 1861.* Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fu... Know more