Overview

Welcome to Transport for London Careers. Job title: Application Development Manager. Salary: £74,238 to £87,500. Grade: 3. Contract type: Permanent. Reference: 1876. Team: Revenue Application Development. Directorate: TfL Corporate. Location: Pier Walk/Hybrid. Application closing date: Wednesday 1st October 2025.

You’ll influence the lives of millions. Join us, and you could be using best practices such as TDD, CI & CD to deliver software that’s used by millions of Londoners every day. You’ll be working on our customer facing websites and APIs. We’ll rely on you to develop systems that are elegant, robust and can handle very high throughput.

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for leading multiple agile software development teams in the Revenue business area of Technology Development. That means you’ll be involved in activities such as refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily scrums. You’ll work with other teams to produce coordinated and integrated high-quality working software.

You’ll get to use every bit of your expertise

Constantly looking for better ways to develop software and experienced in developing high profile public applications, you will have strong experience of:

• Managing developers across multiple scrum teams
• Helping build careers through mentoring and coaching
• Recruitment of software developers
• Delivering secured software solutions using Agile methodology

Technical expertise

• C#, .NET development
• Rest APIs
• Typescript
• HTML/CSS
• Frontend web technologies such as React or similar framework
• Database technologies such as SQL Server
• Microsoft Azure services such as Function App, Service bus, Event hub, APIM, Azure Storage, Azure DevOps

Desirable experience

• Project, stakeholder, and budget management experience
• Understanding of front-end and accessibility standards (i.e. WCAG)

If you can bring excellent communication skills and a flair for analysing complex systems and coming up with effective solutions to problems, you’re someone we’d like to talk to.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We represent the city we serve to help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Hybrid working for this role (50% time office/home over a 4 week period; may evolve subject to business requirements)
• Private healthcare (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible; some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

Seniority

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Non-profit Organizations

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Transport for London. Sign in to set job alerts for “Application Development Manager” roles.