[Royal Mail]
Job reference 332981
Software Engineer
Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Hybrid London Farringdon x3 days a week in office
Royal Mail and our evolving journey
With a long and proud history, Royal Mail is one of the most visible and trusted brands in the UK. We keep people and businesses connected every hour of every day and we’re passionate about harnessing technology to deliver the best possible results for our customers.
Our business is thriving by continuously adapting and adopting advanced technology. We reach every delivery point in the UK and have over 30 million customer touch points per day. We have 165,000 employees, 80,000 PDA’s and 25,000 end IT users. We are in an exciting period of transformation with significant growth in parcel & packet volumes and online services and we’re focusing on investing in the security, technology, processes, and people that are going to help us continue to achieve great things and grow our business.
We have the UK’s largest “Feet on the Street” network of over 85,000 postmen and women and the lowest reported carbon emissions per parcel of any major UK delivery company. We are committed to providing sustainable services as we deliver against our environmental ambitions. We are investing in technologies such as electric vehicles and drones.
The RMG Technology team are influencing and helping drive the changes across the business as new solutions and services and new ways of working are defined and delivered and we need talented, experienced people who can work at pace and scale to join us and help achieve our goals.
We’re passionate about harnessing technology to deliver the best possible results for customers. The business is in an exciting period of transformation and making the most of resources and innovation is fundamental to evolving and delivering the best possible service across the UK and Europe. With a proud history of serving the UK, Royal Mail has been able to thrive by continuously adapting and adopting the most advanced tech. At Royal Mail Technology, we’re playing an exciting role in taking the next steps.
With so much growth in parcels and e-commerce, we have a vision for the future, and we need talented and ambitious people, like you, to help us get there. We know how to support business and communities - and we need to be agile to achieve our goals. We’re focusing on investing in the tech, processes and people that are going to help us achieve great things together. By joining us, you will be driving meaningful change, pushing forward our transformation to become a more agile and customer focused team. We face new challenges every day. But we overcome them together, which brings incredible satisfaction and reward as we deliver more innovation, products and essential services for millions of customers across the UK
Job Purpose
This role is a key enabler in allowing RMG to build high quality software solutions that can operate at enterprise scale with significant transaction volumes, users and data. The Software Engineer will bring strong software engineering capabilities to bear to influence the design and implementation of enterprise software solutions
Key Accountabilities
Applying architectural and engineering concepts to implement solutions that meet business requirements, considering scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, flexibility, availability and manageability
Identify the technologies to employ and take responsibility for the delivery of software solutions
Writing high quality, maintainable, testable and extensible code as part of an agile team delivering software solutions.
Key competencies
* Strong developer in the Microsoft .NET technologies (C#), Azure PaaS (Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB etc), relational databases (MS SQL), non-relational data stores (Cosmos DB / Mongo etc), .Net Android, MAUI. You need to have the Azure PaaS stack but the .NET Android and MAUI stack is optional, but experience in both would be at a greater advantage
* Experience of Web Application development in the .NET stack
* Experience of integration into a diverse range of platforms and services including EAI, remote resources, data storage, messaging, frameworks and 3rd party libraries
* Ability to develop extensible, testable and maintainable code
* Skilled in both server side and client-side technologies
* Understands the challenges of enterprise software development
* Track record in delivering high volume, low latency distributed software solutions
* Is familiar with current programming paradigms and patterns (incl. SOLID, IoC and Dependency Injection)
* Experience of working in Agile teams
* Experience in solution delivery including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support
* Experience with Git source code control
* Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices is an advantage
* Knowledge of Azure DevOps is desirable
* Experience of RDBMS e.g. SQL Server
* Experience of NoSQL databases e.g. Cosmos DB
Extra Benefits
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• 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 perm 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 / Parcelforce / RM Property and Facilities Solutions. 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.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Closing Date: 19th December 2025 Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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