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Salary: EUR 100,000 - 120,000 / annual
Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service. As a fully licensed German bank headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their products. The company is transitioning into an AI-native banking platform to help European businesses deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.
In this Engineering Team Lead role, you will lead a team of 5-6 engineers responsible for business customer onboarding, periodic review, and risk monitoring platforms. Your focus will be on accelerating business onboarding while staying compliant with evolving EU regulatory frameworks (AMLR). You'll tackle complex technical challenges including automating corporate hierarchy analysis, optimizing identity verification pipelines, and ensuring seamless integration with downstream banking systems.
Key responsibilities include:
**Team Leadership & Management:**
- Lead and manage a team of 5-6 software engineers
- Recruit, mentor, and guide engineers in their career growth with tailored feedback
- Cultivate team health, enhance skillsets, ensure service ownership, and optimize team composition
**Technical Excellence:**
- Be hands-on technically, writing and reviewing code to quality and architectural standards
- Champion high engineering standards and implement best practices aligned with Solaris's technical vision
- Ensure architectural sanity, operational excellence, and quality delivery
**Collaboration & Strategy:**
- Work closely with product owners, staff engineers, and stakeholders to define your team's roadmap
- Assume full ownership of your team's scope and address needs across Solaris
- Empower the team to operate self-sufficiently within the broader Engineering organization
Solaris offers continuous learning through the Solaris Academy, AI ambassador mentorship, internal mobility, and a workplace rooted in integrity and equality. The company is driving technology infrastructure from Berlin and banking operations from Frankfurt.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional software engineering experience
- 8+ years of professional experience building and shipping software with deep proficiency in the company's tech stack
- 1-2 years of formal or informal leadership experience (Staff Engineer, Team Lead, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and architecture discussions for complex systems
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages with proven track record of developing scalable products
- Extensive experience developing and operating cloud-native applications (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Strong expertise in building and operating distributed systems with focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Demonstrated technical leadership in projects or teams
- Solid understanding of security best practices for backend and cloud services
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives balancing technical and product objectives
- Strong command of English (written and verbal) in business context
- Strong sense of ownership and focus on delivering user value
- Ability to articulate technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Ability to recognize and foster growth opportunities for engineers
- Comfort working with AI tools, thinking critically about AI outputs, and contributing to responsible AI culture
