Senior Front End Developer

Job Title: Senior Front End Developer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge or Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 21st October 2024

Royal London is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer with experience in developing the user interfaces to join the Design Team as we accelerate our customer, adviser and employer experience transformation and reimagine our digital services.

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will join a dedicated team with likeminded colleagues passionate about providing exceptional experiences and helping ensure our customers get the best possible outcomes.

The role's primary focus is on development and maintenance of Royal London's enterprise-wide Design System and supporting several multi-disciplinary product squads with adoption of the system.

About the role

-Provide extensive business and deep technical expertise to help teams design, develop, test and implement efficient front-end solutions.
-Development and maintenance of Royal London's enterprise-wide Design System.
-Support other multidisciplinary agile squads, collaborating with them to bring about the rapid adoption of the Design System amongst their products and the wider business.
-Contributes to the development and delivery of Royal London's Design System, ensuring conformance with set standards including accessibility and select front end frameworks.
-Ensure all code is thoroughly tested to meet our standards, guidelines, and quality gates for given technologies.

About you

-Strong understanding of web and accessibility standards.
-Knowledge and experience of the Design System platform is essential.
-Excellent understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
-Deep technical knowledge of one or more programming languages.
-Expert knowledge on HTML5, CSS, Vanilla JS.
-Familiar with UI and JS frameworks including, Material Design, Angular, Typescript would be beneficial.

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 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.

Strong understanding of web and accessibility standards.
-Knowledge and experience of the Design System platform is essential.
-Excellent understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
-Deep technical knowledge of one or more programming languages.
-Expert knowledge on HTML5, CSS, Vanilla JS.
-Familiar with UI and JS frameworks including, Material Design, Angular, Typescript would be beneficial.

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 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.