Silverfin: Experienced Ruby Product Engineer

We begin with the cliff notes in regards to the place. If this appeals to you, proceed studying for an extended textual content about working at Silverfin and your position

 

At Silverfin, we’re an equal alternative employer and worth range at our firm. Though we all know we’re not excellent but, we’re working exhausting on it and all the time open to your suggestions.

 

In response to our imaginative and prescient to construct a various, equitable and inclusive organisation, our coverage is to solely make a closing hiring resolution if underrepresented teams are sufficiently represented within the listing of candidates making use of for the place. For that reason it’s attainable interviews get barely delayed till we’ve reached that objective.

 

We’re dedicated to elevating expertise by creating an surroundings the place we will all thrive collectively. So if you happen to suppose you’ve what it takes, however do not essentially test each single field, please take into account making use of. We might love to listen to the way you may contribute to our mission and our crew.

What can we give you?

• Precise, correct work-life steadiness
• Versatile working hours and work 100% remotely
• Private development coaching and alternatives
• Be part of a distributed remote-first engineering crew with 40+ colleagues in 14 completely different international locations on two continents
• A refreshing work surroundings with skilled, pleasant and welcoming colleagues
• A €1200 yearly finances for conferences, programs, workshops or different bills that may enhance your expertise
• Two engineering retreats per 12 months, someplace in Europe 
• Ten company-wide Wellbeing Days per 12 months for all staff (as soon as a month, besides in July and August)

• For this position, the compensation vary is  €104.000 – €130.000 a 12 months , which displays the overall compensation band for senior engineers at this degree.

What’s going to you’re employed on?

• Work out the easiest way to unravel a buyer or enterprise downside in shut collaboration with a product supervisor, a product designer and different engineers 
• Work on consumer going through functionalities 
• Assist with discovery and supply of an answer 
• Give the engineering perspective on potential methods of approaching a selected problem 
• Assist with upkeep and assist of present performance

What are we in search of?

• You’re skilled in each Ruby and Rails, and in addition perceive the place the boundaries lie between them. You possibly can code in Ruby with none of Rails’ coaching wheels if obligatory.
• You might have expertise utilizing Javascript framework(s), perceive the worth of them, but in addition know when plain Javascript is sufficient.
• You are concerned with attending to know our clients to seek out the perfect answer for a given problem. 
• You possibly can talk clearly in English, each in writing and verbally.
• You’re up for mentoring coworkers and can provide in-depth, productive suggestions throughout code evaluations. Whilst you recognize the small stuff, you recognise bike-shedding and may keep away from its pitfalls.
• You recognize and may apply greatest practices when related. Which means the standard like model management, testing, and refactoring; but in addition larger degree ideas such pretty much as good object oriented design.
• You are conscious of the trade-offs concerned in correct engineering and may make balanced enterprise selections, conserving in thoughts all of the stakeholders of the venture.
• You’ve acquired opinions on code design and you’ll talk about them, however you’re skilled sufficient to not let these opinions get in the way in which of a consensus if obligatory.

 

At Silverfin we’re attempting to use the promise of software program to the age-old business of accounting. With our SaaS we’re automating a big chunk of the busy-work that accountants are presently dealing with manually, and are constructing new instruments to allow them to present higher providers to their clients. We goal to optimise their workflow in such a manner that accountants can spend extra time on the way more impactful and rewarding work of advising their clients, the enterprise house owners.

 

The excellent news is we’re succeeding in doing precisely that. Each week greater than 15.000 monetary service professionals use Silverfin to assist and advise greater than 400.000 companies. Our clients adore us! The even higher information is there’s nonetheless a lot left to work on, and that’s the place we hope you are available.

 

Since November 2023 we’re proudly a part of Visma – the European chief in mission-critical cloud software program, having fun with the ability of the Visma model and sources while retaining enterprise autonomy and go-to-market freedom.

 

The product crew is a cross-functional crew the place engineers work collectively carefully with product managers and product designers. The crew’s enter is a consumer or enterprise downside which it may possibly remedy with a excessive diploma of autonomy. From day one all profiles are concerned in understanding the issue, ideating options and doing fast experiments to show {that a} sure answer may truly result in the specified final result. After the invention part the identical crew is tasked with the supply of the chosen answer. The crew will then monitor the adoption of the answer and can be sure that the issue is definitely solved. The setup of the crew is basically primarily based on the guide “Impressed” by Marty Cagan.

 

Subsequent to the 4 product groups, there are three extra platformy groups, who personal complicated subsystems, like syncs or AI, and or assist the product groups with information, frameworks and providers.

 

Our ops crew ensures issues run easily, deploys occur appropriately, and can work with you when points ought to come up. We’re enthusiastic followers of the devops mindset, which implies ops and builders work collectively to unravel issues, and empower each-other to be self-sufficient, as an alternative of throwing issues over the wall to the “different aspect”.

 

We run an up-to-date Rails monolith on the backend, with PostgreSQL and Redis for persistence and caching, and every little thing is working on a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud. Our every day instruments embrace GitLab, Quip and Slack, with Google Meet as our distant conferencing software of alternative. 

 

No code will get deployed and not using a code-review by a peer and testing is a should. Our pipeline automates deployment when the suite is inexperienced, and deploys occur dozens of occasions a day. Every crew is presently doing Kanban, however they’re free to observe no matter course of fits them greatest. There are common retros held to work in the direction of steady enchancment.

 

Software program for accountants isn’t thought-about to be very thrilling, however we have now our fair proportion of technical challenges. To provide you a way of scale: our database exceeds 10TB*, and our largest desk has crossed the ten billion row mark an extended whereas again. We interface with greater than 30 completely different exterior APIs, and supply third events an API of our personal.

 

*: Our ops crew famous that this truly isn’t that tough to realize if you happen to’re simply indexing every little thing, however it nonetheless sounds spectacular, proper?

 

We’re a remote-first engineering crew of 40 folks distributed in 14 completely different international locations over two continents. A precedence for us is sustaining correct work-life steadiness. We keep away from conferences as a lot as attainable, settle for deadlines solely when completely obligatory, and by no means count on anybody to work longer hours than they’ve signed up for. A day in our working lives is fairly boring, and we really feel that’s precisely the way it ought to be.

 

Working with us means you may be versatile together with your schedule. It’s OK to vanish for a number of hours in the midst of the day to run some errands, get a haircut, decide up the youngsters – no matter purpose, you don’t want to elucidate your self.

 

You additionally absolutely determine whenever you take break day: our crew is sufficiently diversified and properly organised that there are all the time sufficient folks round to deal with the load, and within the uncommon instances it’s not, we are going to lower the load as an alternative of asking folks to maneuver their vacation.

 

Being remote-first means we favour asynchronous communication. We don’t draw back from chatting in Slack, however the essential selections or discussions are achieved in Gitlab points, over e mail, or in Quip, so there’s a written, endured document. We’re conscious of sustaining lengthy chunks of focussed time, which implies we keep away from @-mentions or PMs on Slack, and different triggers and interrupts. We encourage utilizing Slack’s DnD perform, particularly whenever you’re not working!

 

We’d be actually completely happy to welcome you in our #engineering channel, however it’s not simply digital: we ensure that we often get to see one another in actual life too. Twice a 12 months we fly the entire engineering crew collectively to a special location in Europe, and not less than every year we be a part of up with the remainder of the corporate so we will spend a while along with the opposite departments.

 

Private development is essential to staying motivated. At Silverfin you don’t want to maneuver to administration with a purpose to advance. We see the person contributor monitor and the administration monitor as two completely different development paths which each engineer can observe and swap between. You may be promoted, together with pay raises, as a contributor identical to as a supervisor.

 

Everybody has a €1200 yearly finances to spend on conferences, programs, workshops or different coaching to enhance their expertise and degree up. This additionally contains lodging, journey prices. If the convention is on a workday you’ll receives a commission like several regular day.

 

• You might have not less than 4 years of expertise working with Ruby, or 2 years of expertise with Ruby and 4 years in a number of different programming languages
• You might have expertise Javascript framework(s)
• Your work hours have some overlap with EU enterprise hours (we require your native timezone to be inside CET +/- 3h)
• You possibly can talk clearly in English, each written and verbally

These could be good however are undoubtedly not obligatory. Don’t fear if not one of the following applies to you.

• Expertise as a distant employee in a totally distant crew
• Expertise working with giant datasets and the issues they create
• Expertise with Vue.js
• Expertise in Fintech
• Accounting information

 

You possibly can apply right now and we’ll begin having interviews from 24/11/2025. There’s no profit to making use of early, so you’ll be able to take your time answering the appliance questions.

 

Read about what our interviewing process looks like