Staff Software Engineer

Ping Identity

Staff Software Engineer developing industry-leading authorization and access control products at Ping Identity. Collaborating across teams to deliver secure digital experiences.

Posted 7/8/2026full-time🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerGradleJavaKubernetesMavenMicroservicesSpring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with Product, Architecture, UX, and SRE colleagues to define requirements and design new features, components, APIs, and microservices.
Lead feature development from discovery through to production, including technical design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
Make technical decisions that balance product needs, engineering quality, performance, security, and delivery constraints.
Work on products offered to customers as either SaaS or on-premise software.
Help raise engineering standards by mentoring others through code reviews, technical feedback, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge-sharing.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within an agile delivery team.
Participate in an on-call support rota for a multi-tenant SaaS product.
Work remotely, with 1-2 days per month in an Edinburgh-based office.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive hands-on development experience delivering major features for products with complex user workflows.
A product-minded approach to engineering, balancing technical constraints, scope, customer needs, and business goals.
Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate different parts of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code generation, testing, refactoring, and code review.
Strong Java development experience, with a track record of applying object-oriented design principles to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable software.
Experience with Spring or similar Java frameworks.
Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, ideally within a microservice architecture.
Familiarity with containerized deployment environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with build automation tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
Parental Leave
Progressive Healthcare Options
Retirement Programs
Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Object-Oriented DesignFeature DevelopmentTechnical DesignCode ReviewTestingDocumentationOperational ReadinessBuild AutomationSpring FrameworkDocker

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationContinuous Improvement