Senior Software Java Engineer - Identity

About the role

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performing mission-critical systems, balancing scalability, security, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Lead technical design of complex features and initiatives, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure solutions aligned with strategy.
• Partner with product managers and the wider team to shape requirements, influence technical direction, and deliver business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, lead key initiatives, and influence technical direction.
• Drive engineering excellence through high-quality software development practices.
• Own production systems, lead incident resolution and root cause analysis, and improve reliability, security, and performance.
• Share knowledge, mentor and support engineers, and help raise engineering standards.
• Contribute to recruitment and interview processes to attract, assess, and develop engineering talent.

What you will need

• Expert proficiency in at least one major programming language; Java is preferred.
• Significant experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including SOLID and design patterns, and how to apply them to maintainable software.
• DevOps mindset and good experience supporting production systems, resolving incidents, and performing root cause analysis.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering decisions across multiple teams.
• Understanding of identity and access management concepts such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) is advantageous.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starts at 25 days plus a personal day and bank holidays.
• Private medical insurance and wellbeing support, including a virtual GP service and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Eligible colleagues can receive paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.

Working arrangements

• Spend 60% of the week collaborating with colleagues at office locations or local sites, with the rest remotely.