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Principal Software Engineer

Scotland - Edinburgh
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About Ping Identity:

At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people think about enterprise security technology. With our innovative Identity Defined Security platform, we're helping to build a borderless world where people have total freedom to work wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.

We call this digital freedom, and it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that drives our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including over half of the Fortune 100. Because even in the most complex enterprise environments, security shouldn't be a source of anxiety, it is one of your greatest competitive advantages.

We're looking for an accomplished software engineer with excellent engineering and technical leadership skills to join our team in Edinburgh and help lead the development of our industry-leading authorization and access control products. We're working on tough engineering problems at enterprise scale, and are looking for someone with great analysis, design, and large-scale software development skills who can help us architect and develop our industry-leading product.

Our products address complex use cases for some of the world's largest enterprises, and you'll create solutions which manage this complexity elegantly. You're comfortable asking questions to colleagues at all levels within the organisation, to find the information you need and ensure that we are solving the right problem.

You Will:

  • Use your deep technical skills to help the development of new features in both SaaS and on-premise software products.
  • Work with Product Managers, Software Architects, UX Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers from across the oganisation to develop requirements and design new features, components, and micro-services.
  • Work with your team to implement, test, and deploy new features, enhancements, and defect fixes.
  • As an expert in your discipline, use your experience to improve your team through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
  • Work with our operational and support teams to achieve a great experience for our customers.
  • Be a member of a product development team reporting to a Product Development Manager.
  • After training, participate in our 12/7 on-call rota supporting our SaaS platform.

You Have:

  • Extensive experience developing large-scale software systems, either: server-side software in a JVM language such as Java or Kotlin; or browser-based SPAs using TypeScript and React.
  • Played a leading role in designing and building applications or products which support complex end-user workflows, in a SaaS context.
  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs as part of a microservices architecture.
  • The ability to approach problems with a product mindset, making good decisions that balance technical constraints, scope and business goals.
  • The ability to constructively review and critique your work and that of others, and the desire to push yourself and those around you to keep improving.
  • Familiarity with SQL and ORM technologies would be an advantage.

Our Benefits:

  • 35 Days of annual leave (including public holidays)
  • Parental leave
  • Standard Life pension plan
  • Private healthcare
  • Education reimbursement

Ping Identity is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.