Identity Backend Engineer Lead — Secure, Scalable Java

The Trust; Dunton; Hybrid; GBP 97,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

The Trust is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Identity Management Services team in Dunton on a hybrid model (4 days onsite). You will design and implement secure, scalable Java-based backend services that support critical identity infrastructure.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and platform resilience in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend development
• Strong Java and framework experience
• Server-side/web development
• DevOps, CI/CD and version control
• Security and identity management
• Relational databases, monitoring and logging
• Technical leadership/mentoring experience

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-scale backend services using Java
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers
• Drive best practices across development, security and DevOps
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Support monitoring, logging, databases and platform resilience
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues within an Agile environment

Skills

Java

Backend

DevOps

CI/CD

Security

Leadership

Relational Databases

Monitoring

Tools

GCP

Networking

Load Balancing

Job description

The Trust is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Identity Management Services team in Dunton on a hybrid model (4 days onsite). You will design and implement secure, scalable Java-based backend services that support critical identity infrastructure.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and platform resilience in an Agile environment.