Engineering Team Lead - Identity

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure. Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale. Why join Solaris? 🚀 We are fundamentally redesigning banking processes around AI orchestration, standardized modular building blocks, and embedded regulatory compliance. 🎯 We combine tech and banking in dedicated hubs - driving the technology infrastructure out of Berlin and banking operations out of Frankfurt. 💡 Through our internal mobility, growth opportunities, and the Solaris Academy, we offer continuous learning tracks, AI ambassador mentorship, and upskilling to keep your skills ahead of the curve. ⚖️ We foster a workplace rooted in integrity, proactive risk management, and equality actively driving initiatives like DEI initiatives. About the role Accelerating business customer onboarding while staying ahead of evolving EU regulatory frameworks (AMLR) is one of our highest technical priorities. As Engineering Team Lead (BKYC), you will lead the software architecture and engineering team responsible for our business onboarding, periodic review, and risk monitoring platforms. You will tackle complex technical challenges -such as automating corporate hierarchy analysis, optimizing identity verification pipelines, and ensuring seamless integration with our downstream banking systems. 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. Your Role Team Leadership and Management Lead and manage a single engineering team of 5-6 engineers. Recruit, mentor, and guide software engineers in their career growth and provide tailored feedback. Proactively cultivate team health, enhance engineer skillsets, ensure service ownership, and optimize team composition. Technical Excellence Be hands-on technically, writing and reviewing code that adheres to quality and architectural standards. Champion high engineering standards, promoting consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices within your team while aligning with Solaris's technical vision. Be responsible for ensuring the sanity of architecture, operational excellence, and quality, while delivering results on time. Collaboration and Strategy Work closely with product owners, staff engineers, other engineering leads and stakeholders to define and set your team's roadmap in alignment with Solaris strategy. Assume full ownership of your team's scope, addressing the needs of various stakeholders and functions across Solaris. Empower the team to operate self-sufficiently within the broader Engineering organization. We'd love to see Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team. A bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or professional experience in Software Engineering 8+ years of professional experience building and shipping software, with deep proficiency in our stack At least 1-2 yea