Principal Engineer at Solaris in Berlin

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. Your Role 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…