Engineering Team Lead (Identity)

Join Solaris, a leading fintech company, as an Engineering Team Lead (BKYC). In this role, you will lead a team of 5-6 engineers, tackle complex technical challenges, and collaborate with various stakeholders to define and set your team's roadmap. You will also be responsible for ensuring technical excellence, team health, and service ownership. This position offers a range of benefits, including a learning and development budget, remote working allowance, and additional vacation days.

Lead and manage a team of 5-6 engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to foster their career growth.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the software architecture and engineering of business onboarding, periodic review, and risk monitoring platforms.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define and set the team's roadmap in alignment with the company's strategy.
• If you have a strong engineering background in fintech, BaaS, or compliance-driven domains, and a passion for leading engineering teams to solve complex, high-impact problems, this role offers direct influence over our platform’s scalability and success

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience building and shipping software, with deep proficiency in our stack
• Demonstrated leadership in technical projects or teams (e.g., Tech Lead, Team Lead)
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, effectively balancing technical and product objectives
• Demonstrate ability to lead technical design and architecture discussions for complex systems./Orchestrate the technical direction for the given scope, as well as the alignment with architecture strategy and quality requirement of the services within the domain
• Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders and to provide clear, empathetic feedback
• Solid understanding of security best practices for backend and cloud services
• Strong command of English both written and verbally within a business context
• Extensive experience in the development and operation of cloud-native applications across major platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• A strong sense of ownership and a focus on delivering value to our users./Guide and build teams of engineers to deliver business value
• A bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or professional experience in Software Engineering
• Proficiency in one or more of our programming languages with a proven track record of developing scalable products
• Ability to recognize, articulate and foster growth opportunities for engineers
• Comfortable working with AI tools, thinking critically about AI outputs, and contributing to a culture of responsible AI use. We expect you to demonstrate comfort with AI-assisted workflows and a willingness to continuously develop their AI capabilities as the technology evolves
• At least 1-2 years of experience in a formal or informal leadership capacity (e.g., Staff Engineer, Team Lead, etc.,)
• Strong expertise in building and operating distributed systems, prioritizing performance, reliability, and maintainability

Pay

EUR 100,000 - 120,000