Software Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

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Job reference 337597
Software Engineer
Competitive salary plus annual bonus potential, 25 days ann ual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail Farringdon Hybrid London Farringdon x3 days a week

Senior Software Engineer – Event Processing (Royal Mail Group)

Royal Mail is undergoing one of the most significant digital transformations in its long history — and you could be at the heart of it. Our Event Processing platform powers the flow of data across the organisation, enabling millions of items to move efficiently through our network every day. We’re building the next generation of this critical system, and we’re looking for engineers who want to shape the future of a national institution.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering high‑quality, highly scalable solutions within a complex and evolving technology landscape. You’ll help define the strategic direction of our event processing capabilities, ensuring they are robust, modern, and ready to support the next era of Royal Mail’s operations.

This is a hands‑on engineering role where you’ll collaborate with senior developers, platform engineers, DevOps specialists, and automation testers to deliver reliable, maintainable, production‑ready software.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivering high‑quality, efficient solutions into a large‑scale, complex estate

• Working closely with senior developers to solve real business challenges with elegant technical solutions

• Identifying and applying the right technologies to build reliable, maintainable systems

• Collaborating with platform engineering and DevOps teams to release incremental functionality into production

• Contributing to the design of components and systems that meet key business needs

• Working with automation testers to ensure comprehensive system test coverage

• Supporting production systems, troubleshooting incidents, and implementing robust resolutions

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone who can bring both expertise and fresh thinking — someone who thrives in a modern engineering environment and is passionate about continuous improvement.

• Strong Java expertise (polyglot developers highly valued)

• Experience designing and building microservices at scale

• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent)

• Solid understanding of TDD, mocking, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience building RESTful APIs using JSON

• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment practices

Who You Are

• A confident communicator — in person and in code

• Committed to software craftsmanship and engineering excellence

• Proactive, curious, and always looking for ways to improve

• Comfortable working in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban)

• A capable generalist with a holistic approach to engineering challenges

• Someone who can bring ideas, experience, and energy to large‑scale modernisation programmes

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Funded Dental – As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance*
• Health Assessment – As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years*
• Benefits Account – You will have access to your personal benefits account on our ‘My Bundle+’ platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.

*Available only to permanent employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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