Senior Front End Developer
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Job Title: Senior Front End Developer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge or Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 19 September 2024
Royal London is seeking a Senior Front-end Developer 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, JS.
- Familiar with UI and JS frameworks including Bootstrap, Material Design, Angular, Typescript.
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.