Lead Front End Developer

“It feels good to have a career with real purpose.”

You will work with UX, engineering and product teams to improve adoption, quality and consistency across our digital experiences, translating technical detail clearly for stakeholders, with support from a Technical Specialist on deeper technical decisions.

This role supports Royal London’s mutual purpose by helping product teams deliver consistent, accessible and customer-focused digital experiences.

About the role

• Lead the development and delivery of Royal London’s Design System, ensuring reusable front-end foundations are accessible, performant, standards-compliant and easy for product teams to adopt across web journeys.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to translate designs into fully functional and responsive components, patterns and templates.
• Experience building and maintaining design token architecture, including Figma-to-code token pipelines, and familiarity with CI/CD for component libraries (automated testing, versioning, release workflows).
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, quality standards, and project requirements.
• Plan and facilitateworkshops for other agile squads (product teams) who plan to, or who are adopting the Design System.
• Own research into technologies, implementation patterns and third-party components that could affect the Design System, including how reusable components are adopted across web environments

About you

• In-depth knowledge of accessibility guidelines, including WCAG and ARIA, and experience using accessibility testing tools to improve the quality of digital experiences.
• Awareness of mobile app development approaches and how design system principles can support native or hybrid app experiences would be beneficial.
• Ability to lead and work as part of a team and within an Agile framework.
• Good communication and influencing skills with ability to consult with multiple stakeholders.
• Familiar with automated testing techniques and frameworks.

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.

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.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.