Founding Staff Engineer - Cloud Banking Platform

Solance; España; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Solance is building a greenfield, cloud-native Banking Service in Dublin. You will join as a founding Staff Engineer reporting to the CTO and lead the design and development of a full-suite platform, leveraging a modern Java-based stack.

You will shape architecture, own critical decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure security, compliance, and scalable deployments across API, zero-downtime releases, and automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of agile software design experience on AWS Cloud
• Ability to design scalable, secure banking platforms
• Strong communication and leadership capabilities to mentor teams

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve the system architecture for a cloud-native banking service
• Mentor and coach engineering teams to follow best practices
• Contribute hands-on coding for core features and infrastructure
• Collaborate with business SMEs, Product Designers, and stakeholders to align tech with business goals
• Support robust testing, quality standards, and CI/CD processes
• Research new technologies and propose improvements to the platform
• Coordinate with compliance and security teams to safeguard data and ensure regulatory readiness

Skills

AWS Cloud development

Java

Python

React/Native

Banking domain knowledge

Tools

AWS

Java

Python

React

Job description

Solance is building a greenfield, cloud-native Banking Service in Dublin. You will join as a founding Staff Engineer reporting to the CTO and lead the design and development of a full-suite platform, leveraging a modern Java-based stack.

You will shape architecture, own critical decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure security, compliance, and scalable deployments across API, zero-downtime releases, and automation.