Lead Software Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology resource solutions provider to leading OEMs across the EMEA region. We are currently searching for a Lead Software Engineer to join our clients team.

We are looking for someone to take technical ownership of a modern, cloud-native platform built on a microservices architecture. You will lead by example—designing, building, and operating scalable services—while mentoring engineers and driving best practices across software engineering and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and evolution of a microservices-based architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability
• Act as a technical authority for the team, making and communicating architectural decisions
• Drive engineering best practices across code quality, testing, security, and operability
• Perform design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback and guidance

Software Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs
• Champion clean code, SOLID principles, and pragmatic engineering solutions
• Ensure services are observable, well-documented, and production-ready
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality features

DevOps & Cloud Responsibilities

• Own parts of the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring efficient and reliable build, test, and deployment processes
• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Support containerised workloads (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes or managed equivalents)
• Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Participate in on-call or incident response processes as needed

Team & Collaboration

• Mentor and support engineers at different stages of their careers
• Help shape team processes, ceremonies, and delivery practices
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience building and running microservices-based systems
• Proficiency in one or more modern backend languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, C#, Go, Python, Node.js)
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and/or event-driven systems
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (e.g. eventual consistency, fault tolerance, messaging)
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Practical DevOps experience, including:
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
• Containers and orchestration
• Experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL)
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance technical excellence with delivery