Lead Software Engineer - Frontend Development

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements

• We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Lead Software Engineer with strong front-end development expertise.
• We need strong proficiency in Angular and modern front-end development.
• We are looking for experience building scalable, maintainable web applications using industry best practice.
• We need proven leadership experience alongside technical expertise.
• We expect you to provide technical advice and guidance to other software developers.
• We need someone who can take responsibility for code quality and ensure work meets our standards, guidelines, and quality gates.
• We are looking for someone who can collaborate effectively with other disciplines and dependent teams.
• We value experience sharing knowledge and supporting technical practice-level learning.

Responsibilities

• We lead the development of complex technical solutions while managing our own workload and supporting the workload of developers in the team.
• We provide technical advice and guidance to other software developers, both proactively and reactively.
• We ensure all code meets our standards, guidelines, and quality gates for the relevant technologies.
• We encourage close collaboration with other disciplines within the team and with dependent teams.
• We take an active role in transferring knowledge and sharing our technical expertise at practice level.
• We contribute to designing, developing, testing, and implementing efficient solutions that meet business and customer requirements.
• We help shape and modernise our new pensions application stack and support the delivery of our new technology solution.

Technologies

• Angular
• Support
• Web
• JavaScript
• Frontend

More

We are the UKs largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. This is a permanent hybrid role based in Alderley Park, with 50% home/office working, and it sits within our Chief Operating Office and Long Term Savings value stream. We are forming new engineering capability to deliver and maintain a new technology solution, with more than 80 vacancies across this exciting opportunity. We offer a culture that is inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling, supported by our values of Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate and Achieve.

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• an employer pension match of up to 14%
• private medical insurance