Solutions Engineer

• Leading technical pre-sales activities for multinational clients evaluating Light's platform, especially firms replacing or augmenting legacy ERPs.
• Running product & technical demos that showcase how Light addresses complex finance workflows, system integrations, and scale.
• Deep collaboration with prospects' technical and finance stakeholders to understand current systems, data flows, and pain points.
• Designing and proposing architecture & implementation plans that map to client needs, ensuring feasibility and scalability.
• Supporting RFPs and responding to technical questions, clarifying how existing or custom integrations will work.

Your main mission is to translate complex customer requirements into compelling technical solutions - helping both clients and Light see how the platform delivers. You will act as a bridge between sales, product, engineering, implementation and customers. You'll need strong presentation skills, deep ERP domain knowledge, and the ability to simplify complexity. This is a highly visible, client-facing role with direct responsibility for helping close deals and ensuring technical alignment early., * Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience.

• 3+ years' experience as a Solutions Engineer/Pre-Sales Engineer in an ERP/FMS context (vendor-side preferred).
• Deep understanding of ERP implementation projects: data migrations, integrations, customisations, modules (finance, supply chain, etc.).
• Excellent technical demo and presentation skills: able to clearly articulate system architecture, APIs, integration points, and trade-offs.
• Strong relationship building skills: able to engage with finance leaders.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major ERP system (e.g. NetSuite, Oracle, SAP) and familiarity with cloud-based systems.
• Able to think strategically and practically: balancing customer requirements, technical constraints, and Light's product roadmap.
• Practical experience using AI or emerging technology tools to improve productivity, insight, or decision-making, with the ability to apply first-principles thinking to new problems.

Bonus points

• Experience in SaaS / FinTech industry, especially working with multi-entity financial operations or global accounting standards.
• Prior experience migrating customers from legacy ERPs to newer cloud financial platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL or Python.
• Experience with data transformation, ETL, or data modelling.
• Familiarity with API-based integrations or middleware tools.
• Multi-region implementation experience (e.g. EMEA + US) or working across different regulatory / tax environments.

A few tips to stand out

• Share examples of complex technical pre-sales / solution engineering projects you've led.

• Demonstrate how you think about integrations, data migrations, scalability, and managing technical risk.

• Be ready to explain how you build trust with both business and technical stakeholders in prospective client organisations.

• Show a good intuition for when to push for product changes vs using what's already there.

Competitive salary + potential stock options Generous package of paid annual leave + public holidays in your country Regular socials and company Starsite off-sites A huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market-defining product.

Light exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive. Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers-automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business. We build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft. In a short time, Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. People don't just use Light-they enjoy it. We're an early team defining a new software category. Think engineers who love debits and credits, designers who care about reconciliation states, and operators who treat finance as a product. If you're excited to modernize how the world runs money-one workflow at a time-you're in the right place. Backed by world-class investors and advised by industry titans, we're building category-defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes. Come help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.