Silverfin: Player-Coach Engineering Team Lead

We’re searching for an Engineering Crew Lead to affix our remote-first division and take the helm of Crew Syncs. This can be a Participant-Coach function, which means you may steadiness hands-on technical contributions with individuals administration, mentoring, and making certain your group is aligned with the corporate’s enterprise priorities.

 

For those who thrive on each writing nice code and fostering an surroundings the place engineers can develop and do their greatest work—particularly within the complicated area of information ingestion and API administration—that is for you.

 

• Affect: Information Crew Syncs, a mission-critical group accountable for bringing complicated monetary information into Silverfin and making certain its accuracy.
• Problem: Work with 30+ exterior APIs, monetary algorithms, and handle a public API for exterior integrations.
• Steadiness: Get pleasure from precise, correct work-life steadiness with versatile hours and no expectation of working past your contractual obligations.
• Development: Take part in our Management Growth Programme and obtain a €1200 yearly funds for skilled improvement.
• Perks: Two engineering retreats per 12 months someplace in Europe and ten company-wide Wellbeing Days per 12 months (a paid Friday off).

A Observe about Compensation

For this function, the compensation vary is €112.000 – €169.000 a 12 months , which displays the full compensation band for Crew Leads at this stage.

 

At Silverfin, we’re dedicated to constructing a numerous, equitable, and inclusive organisation. We worth all our colleagues and don’t discriminate primarily based on race, faith, color, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, incapacity standing, or every other attribute.

 

We imagine the very best options come from numerous views. To make sure an equitable hiring course of, our coverage is to solely transfer to the interviewing stage as soon as we now have a sufficiently consultant and numerous pool of candidates. This would possibly imply a slight delay in scheduling interviews, nevertheless it’s a significant step in our dedication to real fairness.

We strongly encourage you to use even for those who do not verify each single field. We’re searching for potential and distinctive contributions. Inform us how one can assist us obtain our mission!

Because the Crew Lead for Crew Syncs, you’ll handle, mentor, and contribute to a group centered on the spine of our platform—information connectivity and integrity.

Folks Management & Alignment (The Coach)

• Handle and mentor a group of engineers, fostering a tradition of collaboration and steady enchancment.
• Collaborate carefully with the group’s Product Supervisor to set clear objectives and priorities for information synchronization and API improvement.
• Associate with Crew #1 of your fellow TLs to take care of a well-aligned Engineering division.
• Stay the Silverfin values and be a task mannequin in your group.

Technical Contribution (The Participant)

• Actively contribute to the group’s codebase, dividing time between technical work and folks administration.
• Oversee the improvement and upkeep of integrations with exterior bookkeeping APIs, making certain dependable and correct information circulation.
• Information the group in sustaining our public Sync API, enabling third events to construct seamless bookkeeping integrations with Silverfin.
• Assist the group refine algorithms and monetary calculations vital for information accuracy and correctness throughout the platform.
• Assist with discovery and supply of the very best options for buyer and enterprise challenges.

 

What We’re Trying For

Important Necessities

• 2 years of expertise main a group, together with direct individuals administration.
• Latest hands-on expertise as a Senior Software program Engineer.
• Experience with or willingness to shortly study and work with Ruby on Rails.
• Enthusiasm and familiarity with AI instruments for software program improvement.
• Capability to speak clearly in English, each verbally and in writing.
• Work hours have some overlap with EU enterprise hours (native timezone inside CET +/- 3h).
• Willingness and skill to journey 3 to 4 instances per 12 months for group and firm occasions.

Useful Expertise (Good-to-Haves)

• Expertise with API design and constructing resilient, third-party integrations (extremely related for Crew Syncs).
• Expertise in a completely distant working surroundings.
• Expertise working with giant datasets and making certain information integrity.
• Expertise in Fintech or with accounting/monetary information (extremely related for the group’s operate).
• Expertise with JavaScript framework(s).

 

What Makes Silverfin Engineering Particular

Our Expertise and Affect

• The Product: We apply software program to automate the busywork of accounting, permitting our 15,000+ customers to concentrate on different beneficial points of the accountant function akin to consumer advisory.
• The Stack: We run an up-to-date Rails monolith with PostgreSQL and Redis on a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud, with quite a few satellite tv for pc providers – akin to our AI functions. We observe a DevOps mindset—builders and ops work collectively to empower self-sufficiency.
• The Problem: Our greatest stack features a database exceeding 17TB, with tables over 10 billion rows, requiring cautious thought on scalability and efficiency—particularly essential for Crew Syncs’ information ingestion function.
• Product Focus & Empowerment: We’re organised into empowered cross-functional groups with software program or AI engineers, product managers and product designers. Every group has a high-level mission and a whole lot of company in deciding the way to obtain it.
• Innovation: We now have an in-house AI group making use of machine studying to unravel actual consumer issues, with commercially profitable, production-ready options.
• We’re proudly a part of Visma, a European chief in cloud software program.

True Work-Life Steadiness and Flexibility

• Asynchronous-First: We prioritize centered work. Essential choices are documented in Gitlab, electronic mail, or Quip (our wiki) to attenuate interruptions. We discourage pointless Slack mentions and encourage utilizing the “Do Not Disturb” operate.
• Versatile Schedule: It is okay to vanish for a number of hours in the course of the day for private appointments or errands. You absolutely determine whenever you take time without work; if there aren’t sufficient individuals obtainable, we’ll lower the load as an alternative of asking of us to maneuver their holidays.

You possibly can apply at this time. There is no such thing as a profit to making use of early, so take your time to contemplate the function and reply the applying questions completely.

Apply for the job proper right here. Or electronic mail us with any questions: zoe.deswaef@silverfin.com