Backbase

Principal Solutions Engineer

Backbase
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6 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery, solution design, technical workshops, and success-criteria definition.
  • Build, test, troubleshoot, and demonstrate BankingOS solutions and prototypes.
  • Develop Agentic Banking solutions involving AI agents, banking knowledge, tools, workflows, orchestration, monitoring, and error handling.
  • Coordinate with Sales, Value Consultants, Solutions Architects, Product, Services, partners, and customers to manage dependencies and trade-offs.
  • Own the Digital Solution Document covering customer journeys, integrations, decisions, dependencies, and production controls.
  • Lead validation of AI reliability, data privacy, security, and agent autonomy.
  • Support implementation by aligning Services teams and partners and resolving technical questions.
  • Mentor colleagues, create reusable solution assets, and share customer feedback with the product team.

Requirements

  • Experience designing complex enterprise solutions in solutions engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise software presales.
  • Strong knowledge of retail, business, corporate banking, or wealth management.
  • Practical experience with AI agents, knowledge retrieval, AI applications, orchestration, tool integration, testing, monitoring, and error handling.
  • Ability to build, test, and troubleshoot solutions using AI-assisted development tools while applying strong validation and data-handling practices.
  • Understanding of enterprise architecture, APIs, integrations, cloud, identity, security, and data flows.
  • Ability to communicate with senior executives and engineers and explain business and technical trade-offs.
  • Proactive, collaborative, and able to work independently when requirements are unclear.
  • Experience mentoring colleagues and willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.

Benefits

  • Bonus in addition to base salary and a referral bonus.
  • Self-development time, training budget, and clear promotion path.
  • Work-from-home allowance and flexible working hours.
  • Private healthcare through Luxmed.
  • Headspace application.
  • MacBook and necessary equipment.
  • Online and offline team events.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Backbase

About Backbase

1,001-5,000 employees

Backbase builds an AI-native digital banking platform for financial institutions to unify customer and employee experiences across digital channels. It licenses its Banking OS and related services to banks for onboarding, lending, and core modernization initiatives. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it is privately held and used by more than 120 banks worldwide.

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