Product Solution Architect, Connectivity Solutions (all genders)
Distribusion Technologies GmbH
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Required experience: 7+ years in software engineering/architecture
- Key benefit: Flexible and remote working conditions
- Notable requirement: 3+ years as a solution, platform, or enterprise architect
- Key benefit: Relocation opportunities
Role overview
Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace, providing travelers seamless access to ground transportation online across 70+ countries through a cutting-edge B2B technology platform. Backed by TQ Ventures and Lightrock with a recent $80m Series C funding, they connect bus, rail, and ferry operators with major retailers like Google Maps. As a Product Solution Architect, you translate complex, multi-team requirements into scalable, platform-ready concepts, from requirements gathering and product design through to technical architecture, without hands-on coding. You work with client-facing teams to solve client needs while keeping products coherent across tech verticals, championing clean concepts and guiding engineering teams toward high-quality delivery.
Responsibilities
- Architecture & System Blueprints: Define high-level platform concepts, system topologies, and technical blueprints that resolve cross-domain dependencies while systematically reducing tech debt.
- Requirements & Product Design: Partner with stakeholders to translate vague business needs into well-structured, platform-ready functional designs and technical specifications.
- Technical Advisory & Quality Governance: Analyze existing codebases and implementation standards to advise engineering teams, enforce best practices, and resolve technical blockers.
- Project & Delivery Alignment: Steer feature initiatives from concept to production, ensuring cross-team synchronization and timely delivery against platform milestones.
Requirements
- 7+ years in software engineering or technical architecture, including 3+ years working as a solution, platform, or enterprise architect.
- Proven experience designing platform-level architectures and system blueprints for products spanning multiple teams and domains.
- Strong grounding in software design patterns, distributed systems, API design, and integration architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to read and evaluate existing codebases to assess technical debt, risk, and implementation quality.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, able to translate ambiguous business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications.
- Experience steering cross-functional delivery and aligning engineering, product, and business stakeholders without formal line-management authority.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in travel, mobility, or e-commerce distribution platforms.
- Familiarity with domain-driven design and large-scale platform migrations or modernization initiatives.
- Prior experience in a technical advisory, architecture guild, or platform governance function.
Benefits
- Flexible and remote working conditions
- Relocation opportunities
- Career growth in a small and developing company
- Access to the best possible tools and a constantly updating tech stack
Additional details
- We are a remote-first company with teams located around the Globe and a HQ in Berlin.
- You will join a fast-paced travel tech company and take on a rapidly growing industry.
- You will take on ownership and responsibility from day one and have a direct impact on the success of the company.
- You will work with global companies. Our product attracts the biggest names in travel technology, such as Booking.com, Google Maps, and national carriers like Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
- You will join an international team of talented and driven people with a clear mission.
- Your Talent Partner (TP) and point of contact is Anh Do, and the Hiring Manager (HM) is Mathias Leppmeier.
- Originally posted on Himalayas