Full Stack Software Developer

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Founded in 1861, we're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Our award-winning customer service and our mutuality means we can give customers that little bit more, and you can trust us to be there for you when it counts.

Full Stack Software Developer

Edinburgh

Permanent Contract

Closing date - 20/12/19

At Royal London we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most trusted and recommend financial company in the UK.

We are the largest mutual life, pensions and Investment Company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £118.9 billion and latest ProfitShare pay out to members of £142 million.  Group businesses provide around 9.0 million policies and employ 3,976 people (figures as of 05 Feb 2019). 

We have an exciting permanent role for a full stack Software Developer to join the Web delivery team in Edinburgh. The role represents an opportunity join the team that deliver digital change to Royal London's customer and intermediary websites, working with the Episerver Content Management System.  

The purpose of this role is to design, develop, test and implement efficient web and web integration solutions that meet business and customer delivery requirements.  The team is a specialist team of developers, analysts and testers with accountabilities to deliver to a number of lines of business via a prioritised backlog.  The team is led by a Technical Lead, who runs the team.

What will you be doing

Writing code that meets group standards, guidelines and quality gates for given technologies

Thoroughly testing all changes to ensure any issues are identified as early as possible

Supporting the safe implementation of solutions to production environment(s)

Contributing to the software development practice by sharing ideas and experience

Carrying out accurate impact assessments on changes to existing applications

Contributing to process improvements and sharing best practice with the wider team

What we're looking for

An experienced C# .NET developer

Experience with web development and delivery

JavaScript/CSS experience

Excellent written and oral communication

You will be comfortable working in a close-knit team environment

Skills that could help you in the role

While it would be useful to have some EpiServer expertise, it is not essential. 

Experience with front-end libraries (Angular/Angular.js/React/Bootstrap)

Broad experience of reading API documentation and interfacing with 3rd party APIs

Experience with automated regression testing tools

SQL DB skills

Experience of working in an agile environment

What we offer

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 

Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It's what makes Royal London a great place to work.

Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.

Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills - whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise is designed to make sure you 'work somewhere inclusive'. We want to live up to this promise; it's good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.