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He was born in Olot in Girona. He studied composition and the organ as a child, and held posts as chapel master in Lleida and El Escorial.
His best known works are his keyboard sonatas, of which he wrote over a hundred and which are comparable to those by his teacher Domenico Scarlatti. Soler's works are more varied than Scarlatti's, however, with some pieces in three or four movements, for example (Scarlatti's are in one or two). He also wrote concertos, quintets for organ and strings, motets, masseses and pieces for solo organ. His treatise Llave de la modulación (1762) is on modulation.
A fandango once attributed to Soler, and probably more often performed than any other work by him, is now thought to be of doubtful authorship.