Principal Software Engineer (F/M/X)

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Senior level
Cloud • Software • Consulting
The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll plan, design, and coordinate software products, support teams in development, and influence technology strategy.
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Be at the heart of helping achieve extraordinary things with effective, efficient and challenging software and data solutions for our customers!
**This position is available for residents in Germany who are Fluent in German and English.

About Us   

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business. 

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms. 

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too! 

About the role   

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical design and development of key client projects from our Munich office. In this role, you will be responsible for defining the full-stack software and system architecture, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality digital products. You will serve as a key technical authority within the company, collaborating closely with clients, project managers, and business development.


Key Responsibilities 
  • Architectural Design: Analyse client business requirements and design scalable, reliable, and secure end-to-end software solutions, with a primary focus on the .NET framework and Microsoft Azure platform or any other cloud platform.
  • Technical Governance: Provide expert guidance and solve the most complex technical challenges for multiple development teams across the full technology stack, from frontend to backend.
  • Pre-Sales & Solutioning: Partner with the sales team to develop technical concepts, proposals, and effort estimations during the pre-sales cycle.
  • Client Engagement: Act as a primary technical point of contact for clients, effectively communicating architectural decisions, and translating business needs into technical specifications.
  • Mentorship: Coach and mentor senior and junior engineers, promoting best practices in software development, security, and cloud architecture.
  • Technology Strategy: Identify and evaluate emerging technology trends, contributing to strategic decisions that shape the company's technical direction.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Significant professional experience in software engineering, with a demonstrable history of designing complex software architectures.
  • Deep expertise in backend development using the .NET ecosystem (C#, .NETCore/6+, ASP.NET).
  • Frontend Proficiency: Good command of modern frontend development, with expertise in at least one major JavaScript UI framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
  • Strong, practical experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, database, security, and container services (AKS).
  • Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and database schemas.
  • Solid knowledge of system architecture, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with software security best practices and identity management solutions (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Azure AD).
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with clients and cross-functional teams.
  • Full professional fluency in both German and English (written and spoken).

Desired Attributes

  • A passion for high-quality code, user experience, and attention to detail.
  • A proactive, self-motivated attitude with a desire for continuous learning.
  • Experience in a consulting or agency environment is a plus.

Working at Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

Top Skills

Api Design
Automated Testing
Azure
Cloud Environments
Database Schemas
Docker
Kubernetes
Software Architecture
Web Technologies
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The Company
London
452 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Ascent is a design-led software, data and cloud business that specialises in advanced analytics and AI. We design, build and manage cloud-native products, solutions, platforms and experiences on Azure. Our community of engineers, architects, data scientists, experience designers and consultants is here to help customers do something new, or do something better. Ascent is home to 450+ technology specialists across 5 key European locations (UK, Germany, Portugal, Malta and Bulgaria). Our talented, consultative teams deliver a range of solutions, from digital product and service design to mobile app development, API integrations, data engineering, AI and data science. Our modern app, data and infrastructure platforms help businesses leave legacy behind and enable rapid, efficient innovation

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