Solance

Role Description This is a career-defining opportunity to join Solance as a founding engineer in a brand-new Dublin-based tech team. You’ll report directly to the CTO and lead the design and development of a greenfield, full-suite Banking Service—built entirely in the cloud using a modern Java-based, automated tech stack. Your Responsibilities - Architecture design: contribute to the creation and evolution of the architecture of our tech solutions, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance. - Team mentorship: Coach engineering teams, guiding best practices in software development and engineering processes. - Code Development: Engage in hands-on coding and actively contribute to the development of core features and functionality. - Collaboration across the business: Work closely with business SMEs, a Product Designers and other business stakeholders to ensure alignment of technology with the business objectives. - Quality Assurance: Support and contribute to a robust testing practice and ensure adherence to coding standards throughout the development lifecycle. - Technology Research: Stay ahead of the curve by researching new technologies and recommending solutions that can enhance our offerings. - Compliance and Security: Work with compliance and risk team members to implement security measures that safeguard sensitive financial data. Qualifications - 10+ years deep experience in agile software design, development for AWS Cloud. - Ideally 5+ years’ experience in some or all of: - Banking - Payments processing - KYC - AML - Customer onboarding - UX - Data analytics - Expertise in multiple programming languages and frameworks; proficiency in Python, Java and React / Native is a significant plus. - Extensive experience in deployment, release, testing, observability and alerting principles and standards. - A proven track record in prioritising automation for velocity and quality as an investment in the business. - Extensive experience in creating and improving standards and mentoring of Software engineers in design, implementation, testing, automation, code quality and cyber security. - Extensive experience in leading engineering initiatives working closely with the Business team members. - Significant experience in converting business requirements into tech requirements with close business collaboration. - Extensive experience in developing API frameworks, zero downtime release, seamless rollback, versioning & backwards compatibility. - Strong experience in assessing and implementing improved development tooling and practices. Benefits - To become part of a startup with a bold vision to redefine the financial services landscape in Europe. - A rare opportunity to make a significant impact from day one in a greenfield EMI. - To collaborate with a passionate, driven team that values innovation and customer-centricity. - To help build a culture and workplace you’re proud to call your own.

• Architecture design: contribute to the creation and evolution of the architecture of our tech solutions, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance. • Team mentorship: Coach engineering teams, guiding best practices in software development and engineering processes. • Code Development: Engage in hands-on coding and actively contribute to the development of core features and functionality. • Collaboration across the business: Work closely with business SMEs, Product Designers and other business stakeholders to ensure alignment of technology with business objectives. • Quality Assurance: Support and contribute to a robust testing practice and ensure adherence to coding standards throughout the development lifecycle. • Technology Research: Stay ahead of the curve by researching new technologies and recommending solutions that can enhance our offerings. • Compliance and Security: Work with compliance and risk team members to implement security measures that safeguard sensitive financial data.

• Design, configure, and document the Slack environment from the ground up. • Build a channel structure aligned to functional teams with permissions and access controls. • Connect core stack tools into Slack and configure workflows. • Set up automations to streamline recurring processes. • Manage onboarding and access with clear documentation for maintenance.

Role Description We're looking for an experienced Slack Workspace Architect (a true Slack-Veteran) to design, configure, and document our Slack environment from the ground up. This isn't a "spin up some channels and call it done" project; we need someone who thinks about governance, access control, and operational scalability from day one. If you've built Slack workspaces for regulated financial services companies and you take pride in clean, well-documented setups that teams want to use, we want to hear from you. What You'll Deliver - Channel Architecture & Setup: Design and build a channel structure aligned to our functional teams (Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations) with appropriate permissions, naming conventions, and access controls baked in. - Tool Integrations: Connect our core stack into Slack (PagerDuty, Monday.com, Sumo Logic, AWS among others). Configure alerting, notifications, and workflows that route the right signals to the right people without creating noise. - Workflow Automation: Set up basic automations and workflows to streamline recurring processes and reduce manual overhead for the team. - Onboarding & Access Management: Add team members, configure permissions, and set up a repeatable onboarding flow so future hires can be onboarded cleanly. - Documentation: Deliver clear, maintainable documentation so our internal team can run, extend, and audit the workspace after handover. Why This Role Matters We will be operating in the highly regulated European financial services environment. We're not asking you to run a compliance audit, but we are asking you to bring the experience of someone who's worked in regulated industries before. You should naturally think about data governance, audit logging, and why least-privilege access matters when designing workspace architecture. Qualifications - Proven track record setting up and configuring Slack workspaces end-to-end. - Hands-on experience working with fintech, payments, banking, or other regulated financial services companies. - Direct experience integrating at least one of: PagerDuty, Monday.com, Sumo Logic, or AWS with Slack. - Strong written communication; you can explain your reasoning, not just your actions. - A consultative mindset; you ask sharp questions about our use cases instead of working off a generic checklist. How to Apply Submit a cover letter with a fixed-price proposal including: - Total fixed fee for the full scope of work - Fixed delivery date: your committed completion date based on a 2-week engagement window - Brief outline of your approach: how you'd structure the engagement, key milestones, and what you'd want to clarify upfront - Relevant fintech/regulated industry experience: specific examples of similar workspaces you've built - Tooling experience: Which of our integrations (PagerDuty, Monday.com, Sumo Logic, AWS) have you worked with and in what context We're evaluating proposals on the quality of thinking as much as price. The best proposal isn't necessarily the cheapest; it's the one that makes us confident you'll deliver cleanly and on time. Ready to build something that lasts? Send your proposal, and let's talk.