Solution Architect

Company Description

vaylens develops innovative software and SaaS solutions for the marketing and management of charging stations for electric vehicles. The company supports operators in the management, control and monitoring of their charging infrastructures and offers technical support and training to ensure that customers get the most out of the vaylens products. vaylens is based in Dortmund and part of the KOSTAL Group. For more information, visit: vaylens.com

Job Description

Shape the future of a large-scale cloud platform for e-mobility

At vaylens, you'll architect one of the leading SaaS platforms in the rapidly growing e-mobility industry. Our platform consists of 80+ cloud-native applications and microservices powering business portals, mobile apps, and digital services that enable the operation of charging infrastructure across Europe.

As the market evolves at high speed, so does our platform. New products, integrations, and services, increasing data volumes, demanding performance requirements, and evolving customer expectations continuously create exciting architectural challenges. This is where you come in.

As our Senior Solution Architect, you'll define the architecture behind the next generation of our platform. You'll drive cross-team solution design, shape the evolution of our microservice landscape, and make key technology decisions that ensure our platform remains scalable, secure, resilient, and ready for future growth.

Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, and the Head of Platform Architecture, you'll influence our technical direction, lead strategic architecture initiatives, and help engineering teams solve complex distributed systems challenges. If you enjoy balancing big-picture architecture with hands-on technical discussions—and want to leave your fingerprint on a platform operating at scale—this role is for you.

Your responsibilities

• Own the solution and system architecture for cross-team platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with our long-term architectural vision.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, defining APIs, domain models, system interfaces, and integration concepts for our Java/Spring Boot microservices and Angular applications.
• Design architectures that balance scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Define cloud infrastructure requirements together with DevOps and drive cloud-native best practices on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Lead architectural initiatives such as platform modernization, migrations, third-party integrations, and Proofs of Concept for emerging technologies.