Solution Architect

Netguru; Województwo wielkopolskie; On-site; PLN 312,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Multisport card

Private health insurance

Life insurance

Remote work lump sum (PLN 175)

Discounts on Apple products

WorkSmile platform benefits

Job summary

Netguru is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to shape technical solutions and estimates for new opportunities. You’ll work primarily in presales, designing architectures, prototyping, and crafting proposals for clients while collaborating with engineers and leaders.

You are an engineer-first professional with 10+ years in software engineering, 3+ years as an architect, and fluent in Polish and English. Join a team delivering enterprise-scale, cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with hands-on coding in major tech stacks.
• 3+ years designing systems as an architect or senior engineer.
• Experience designing complex, enterprise-scale systems end to end.

Responsibilities

• Design the technical solution for new opportunities and RFPs.
• Estimate the solution bottom-up and manage assumptions and risks.
• Build PoCs, spikes and prototypes to validate technical choices.
• Run technical discovery and hand the solution to the Tech Lead.
• Join discovery calls and write the technical part of proposals.
• Share patterns and lessons with Engineering Managers.

Skills

Software engineering

System architecture

AI/ML systems

Cloud architecture

Polish & English proficiency

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Java/Kotlin

.NET

React

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Java/Kotlin

.NET

React

Job description

Netguru is a trusted partner in digital commerce. The company helps leading brands modernize B2B solutions, marketplaces, and retail ecosystems. Since 2008, it has empowered businesses with cutting-edge technology, AI-powered personalization, and world-class engineering and design teams. A certified B Corporation®, Netguru is trusted by major brands including IKEA, VW, OLX, Delivery Hero, Żabka, Wolt, Careem, and Vinted.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Team!

What we offer:

28,000–32,000 PLN net/month on B2B.

A direct impact on what Netguru sells and how it is built.

Variety: new industries and problems every few weeks.

AI tools and budget to experiment with new ways of delivery.

About the role

As a Solution Architect at Netguru you design the technical solution and estimate it, so that what we sell can be built on time and on budget. You are an engineer first: you design the architecture, prove it with code when needed, and turn it into an estimate you can defend. You work mostly in presales and in the first weeks of a project. This is an individual contributor role with no line management.

What you will do

Solution design

• Design the technical solution for new opportunities and RFPs: architecture, components, integrations, data flows, infrastructure and the trade-offs between options.
• Design complex systems: many integrated components, cloud-native, enterprise scale, with the legal and regulatory constraints of the client's domain.
• Design data-heavy and AI/ML systems: data pipelines, LLM and agentic solutions, RAG, evaluation and running costs.
• Choose the stack and integration patterns, and justify the choice in writing.

Estimation & risk

• Break the solution into a scope and estimate it bottom-up; own the assumptions and risks behind the number.
• Factor AI-assisted delivery into effort and cost (oversight, review, token and infrastructure costs).
• Challenge estimates from others and present options in deal reviews; flag when a deal is too risky to commit.

Hands-on proof

• Build PoCs, spikes and prototypes to validate key technical choices before we commit to them.
• Run technical discovery and inception; hand the solution over to the Tech Lead and team and support them in the first sprints.
• Do design and code reviews when a running project needs a second opinion.

Client-facing solutioning

• Join discovery calls and workshops as the technical expert, together with solutioning and delivery.
• Write the technical part of proposals and defend it in front of the client's CTO and engineers.

Reusable know-how

• Build reference architectures, recommended stacks and estimation baselines we reuse across deals.
• Share patterns and lessons with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.

• 10+ years in software engineering, with a hands-on background as a developer in major tech stacks (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, .NET, React); you still code.
• 3+ years designing systems as an architect, principal or staff engineer, or similar.
• Proven experience designing complex, integrated enterprise systems end to end.
• Hands-on experience with data-heavy and AI/ML systems (including LLM-based solutions) in production.
• Strong cloud architecture skills (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• A track record of estimates that held up in delivery.
• Ability to explain trade-offs to both CTOs and business stakeholders.
• Fluent Polish and English (B2+).

Nice to have

• Background in consulting or a software house.
• Experience in regulated domains (finance, healthcare, energy, retail at scale).
• Commerce architectures (headless commerce, PIM/DAM, headless CMS).
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Interest in growing into technical leadership in the future.

• UoP (CoE): Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences:
• Multisport card,
• Private health insurance package,
• Life insurance,
• And hundreds of other options to choose from 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.).
• UoP (CoE): PLN 175 monthly lump sum (ryczałt) for remote employees.
• B2B: Discounts on Apple products.
• Various internal initiatives: Team workshops and integration events, webinars, and knowledge sharing sessions.

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