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About the Role
Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform, empowering partners to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services. This role involves leading the design of complex, distributed micro-services and platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of complex, distributed micro-services and platforms, focusing on scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Ensure architecturally inter-connected teams are aligned; facilitate bi-directional information flow between domain teams and the wider tech organization.
- Drive high-level technology decisions, including framework selection, cloud infrastructure strategy, and third-party integrations.
- Take accountability for the reliability, security, and performance of the fleet of micro-services and platform capabilities.
- Establish and enforce coding standards, code review guidelines, and architectural patterns to ensure high-quality delivery.
- Contribute to and champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools to maximize developer efficiency.
- Lead the resolution of complex, cross-team technical incidents and conduct blameless post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
- Help teammates grow as craftspeople through technical mentorship, pair programming, and sponsorship.
- Translate complex technical topics into business value for Product Owners and stakeholders; translate business goals into technical requirements for engineers.
Requirements
- A bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ years of total professional experience in Software Engineering.
- 3+ years in a Technical Leadership role (e.g., Staff, Principal, Lead Architect) driving technical decisions across multiple teams or critical systems.
- Proven track record of designing and evolving high-traffic, distributed systems or APIs.
- Experience operating in a DevOps/You-Build-It-You-Run-It culture.
- Possess the ability to read, review, and debug code in multiple modern languages (e.g., Java, Go) and adapt to the right tool for the job.
- Deep expertise in designing distributed, high-throughput systems.
- Proven ability to select appropriate architectural patterns (e.g., Event-Driven, Microservices, CQRS, Hexagonal Architecture) based on business requirements and trade-offs.
- Ability to evolve monolithic or legacy systems into modern architectures using different design patterns, without disrupting business continuity.
- Advanced understanding of the container ecosystem and orchestration strategies.
- Capable of designing services that are truly cloud-agnostic and scalable.
- Philosophically aligned with "Everything as Code."
- Capable of guiding teams in managing complex infrastructure.
- Ability to execute, deliver, and guide others through unclear goals and complex problem spaces without supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal English (German is a plus).
- Able to explain trade-offs (e.g., Consistency vs. Availability) to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to influence roadmaps and engineering culture without direct managerial authority.
- A curious, constant learner who proactively shares knowledge via tech talks, documentation, and coaching.
Skills
- Java
- Go
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Microservices
- CQRS
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Containerization
- Orchestration
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- CI/CD
- Observability
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of total professional experience in Software Engineering
- 3+ years in a Technical Leadership role
Education Level
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- €100.000—€125.000 EUR
Benefits
- Home office budget
- Learning & development budget of €1000 per year
- Transparent growth framework
- Competitive salary
- Variable remuneration program
- Monthly meal allowance
- Deutschland ticket subsidy
- 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year
About the Company
- Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform.
- Solaris’ full German banking license and proprietary modular B2B tech stack empowers its partners – from SMEs to large, multinational, non-financial companies – to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services, providing seamless experiences to customers across all industries.
- Founded in 2016, Solaris pioneered the Banking-as-a-Service market with an unparalleled combination of tech and banking.
- Solaris is headquartered in Berlin and employs 300 people in Europe.
Equal Opportunity
- At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported.
- We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.