Job description
Description
Are you ready to be a technology leader in the SaaS space? Join epilot!
epilot is building a SaaS product to sell complex products online, focusing on solving ecommerce in the rapidly transforming energy market. Our mission: Make selling complex energy products as easy as selling a pair of shoes online.
As a Solutions Architect (AWS) – Integrations, you design, build, and operate mission-critical integrations between epilot and customer systems. You don’t just wire systems together. You architect scalable integrations on AWS infrastructure and improve our core product & APIs to make integrations easier, safer, and more scalable over time.
Check out our promise to you: promise.epilot.cloud
Requirements
What awaits you
Architect & build integrations
Design, implement, and operate integrations between epilot and customer systems (ERP, CRM, billing, etc.).
Build event-driven, serverless AWS architectures (APIs, queues, workflows).
Own integrations end-to-end, including production responsibility.
Build integration tooling into the core product
Design and implement platform capabilities and tooling (APIs, monitoring, internal tools) that make integrations faster and more self-service.
Turn customer-specific solutions into reusable product features.
Improve developer experience for customers, partners, and epilot engineers.
Shape how integrations are modeled, configured, tested, and monitored.
Lead customer integration projects
Act as technical lead for onboarding and migration projects.
Design target architectures together with customers.
Customize and extend standard integrations to real-world needs.
Own stability & operations
Define and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, retries, and error handling.
Ensure integrations meet agreed SLAs for reliability and performance.
Handle complex data flows
Large-scale imports/exports, transformations, reconciliation.
ETL-like pipelines using cloud-native tooling.
Ensure data quality and integrity across distributed systems.
Work mainly on backend, cloud & architecture
Serverless AWS microservices, APIs, and event systems.
Occasional frontend or internal tooling work when needed.
Use AI as a force multiplier
Daily use of AI code agents for implementation, refactoring, debugging, and docs.
Help define best practices for AI-assisted development.
Learn more about our architecture and tech stack here: Introduction to epilot | epilot dev center
What you bring
Cloud & architecture
Strong hands-on AWS experience, ideally serverless and event-driven.
Experience designing and operating production cloud systems.
Solid backend skills (TypeScript/JavaScript or similar).
Integrations
REST APIs, webhooks, messaging, data pipelines.
Experience integrating with external systems.
Comfortable with messy, real-world data.
Security knowledge
- Auth, IAM, secrets management, least privilege, secure data handling.
Customer-facing confidence
Comfortable discussing architectures with customers and partners.
German is a strong plus (B2+). English required
Mindset
Ownership. You care about production.
Product thinking, not ticket thinking.
Pragmatic problem solver.
Comfortable with ambiguity.
What we offer you
At epilot, we believe in rewarding performance, fostering growth, and creating an environment where you’ll thrive:
A 100% serverless AWS product at scale.
Impactful work: Help shape the integration backbone of a product that’s reshaping the energy sector.
Startup mentality: Dynamic atmosphere, flat hierarchies, open communication.
Flexibility: Work remotely or from our centrally located office in Cologne, with flexible working hours.
Growth opportunities: Your career can grow as fast as we do. Learn, experiment, and embrace a “Fail Fast and Often” mentality.
Competitive compensation: We take your desired salary seriously and value performance.
Team spirit: Regular events like summer parties, company breakfasts, and our annual epilot summit with co-epilots worldwide.
Transparency & openness: Everything is open for discussion in our inclusive and supportive culture.
We are looking forward to your application!
P.S.: If you want to learn more about the application process, please read Eka’s blog article: https://dev.to/epilot/how-to-get-hired-at-epilot-step-by-step-guide-4ei1
