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Headquarters: Gentleman, Belgium
URL: https://silverfin.com/
Start with a cliff note about positions. If this appeals to you, read a longer text version about us and work further down on Silverfin. 👇
At Silverfin, our company’s equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marriage status, or disability status.
We know it’s not perfect yet, but we’re working hard on it and always open to your feedback.
According to our vision of building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, our policy is to start the interview process when there are enough groups that are well represented in the list of candidates applying for positions. This can lead to slightly delays in the interview until you reach that goal.
We are committed to increasing talent by creating an environment where we can all thrive together. So, you think you have what you need, but don’t always check all the boxes. Please consider applying it. I would like to hear about our mission and how you contribute to our team.
What can I offer?
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Join a distributed remote first engineering team with 40 colleagues from 14 countries
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A refreshing work environment with professional, friendly and welcoming colleagues
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A practical, appropriate work-life balance
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Salary range is 112.000 euros – 169.000 euros per year
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Flexible working hours and 100% remote work
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Participation in Leadership Development Programs and Personal Growth and Mentoring Opportunities
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Annual budget of 1200 euros for a meeting, course, workshop or other cost that will improve your skills
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Two engineering retreats per year somewhere in Europe
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Monthly Company-wide Welfare Day Holiday (Annual Review)
What are we looking for?
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Has at least 2 years of leadership experience
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We aim to manage and guide engineering teams.
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I have recent experience as a senior software engineer
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You know or are interested to learn ruby ​​on the rail
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You are interested in getting to know your customers and finding the best solution for your specific challenge.
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Knowing the trade-offs involved in the right engineering, you can make balanced business decisions with all the stakeholders in mind.
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You can communicate clearly in English both verbally and in writing.
They were cliff notebooks. In the next section, we’ll dig a little deeper to explain who we are and the teams that make up Silverfin Engineering.
What does Silverfin Engineering Lead do?
As a lead in the engineering team, you will manage, inspire and mentor your engineer team to promote a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. Additionally, it acts as a cohesive force between the team, engineering department, and the entire company. Working with the “Player Coach” model, it balances practical contributions and team management.
– Live [Silverfin values](https://silverfin.com/careers/) and become a role model for individual contributors
– Working with fellow team leads to support you (we are those who believe in a well-organized team number one)
– Make sure your team works with other engineering teams and the rest of the organization to focus on business priorities
– Lead and coach your team while coordinating closely with your product manager
– I have a large portion of my time embracing the “player coach” model and devoted myself to direct technical contributions.
– Help us discover and deliver the best way to solve customer or business problems
– Supports maintenance and support for existing features
What is Silver Fin?
At Silverfin, we apply software promises to the old accounting industry. With SaaS, accountants are currently working manually and automate most of their busy work, building new tools to help them better serve their customers. We aim to optimize their workflow so that accountants can spend more time on more impactful and rewarding tasks of advising customers, business owners.
The good news is that we are successful in doing just that. Each week, over 15.000 financial services experts use Silverfin to help and advise over 400.000 businesses. Our customers adore us! The even better news is that there is still something to tackle, and I hope that’s what you’ll come in.
Since November 2023, we have proudly been a European leader in mission-critical cloud software, enjoying the power of our Visma brand and resources while maintaining business autonomy and freedom to the market.
What does it look like working at Silverfin?
Our product teams are transcendental teams, representing engineering, product design and product management. They work close to the user, trying to understand their problems and discover and implement solutions that add value to the most. We believe in a very close collaboration between the three perspectives as soon as possible. Product teams are supported by other teams that provide core services, maintain complex subsystems, and have specialized expertise.
We are proud of our internal AI team. It focuses on applying modern developments in machine learning to address the most important challenges of users. We’re already quite on the journey as we have multiple AI-powered features that solve real client problems and are commercially successful.
Our Cloudops team ensures that things run smoothly and will be happy to work with you when problems arise. We are enthusiastic followers of DevOps thinking. This means that OPS and developers work together to solve problems and instead of throwing the problems “on the other side” on the wall, they become self-sufficient.
Run the latest Rails monolith on the backend, run PostgreSQL and Redis to persist and cache, everything is running on a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud. Monolith interacts with clusters of Ruby and Python services that house AI models and virus scanners. Our daily tools include Gitlab, Quip and Slack, and Google Meet is the remote conferencing tool of your choice.
The code is not deployed without peer review and testing is mandatory. Pipelines automate deployments when suites are green, and deployments occur dozens of times a day. Each team is currently working on Kanban, but they are free to follow the process that is best suited to any process. Regular retros are maintained to work towards continuous improvement.
While software for accountants is not considered very exciting, there is a considerable portion of the technical challenges. To give you a sense of scale: In the largest stack, the database exceeded 17TB*, and the largest table exceeded the 10 billion column mark for a long time. Runs stacks across multiple continents, interfaces with over 30 external APIs, and provides your own APIs to third parties.
*: Our Cloudops team said that if you’re just indexing everything, it’s not that difficult to actually achieve, but it’s still impressive, right?
What makes Silverfin’s engineering team so special?
We are a 40-person remote first engineering team distributed to 14 different countries on two continents. For us, our priority is to maintain a proper work-life balance. We should avoid meetings as much as possible, accept deadlines only when absolutely necessary, and do not expect anyone to work longer than they signed up. Our working day is pretty boring and I feel that is exactly what it should be.
Working with us means you are flexible in your schedule. It’s okay to disappear in the middle of the day for a few hours, run some errands, get a haircut, and pick up kids – for some reason, there’s no need to explain yourself. Also, make a complete decision when you take a vacation. Our team is diverse enough and organized well enough that there are always enough people to handle the package. If not rare, reduce the load rather than asking people to move their holidays.
Being remote-first means preferring asynchronous communication. We are not embarrassed to chat with Slack, but there is a permanent record written as important decisions and discussions take place in Gitlab issues, emails or in the central wiki of Quip. We keep in mind that we maintain long chunks of focus. This means you are avoiding @ment or PM of Slack or other triggers and interrupts. If it’s not working, I recommend using Slack’s DND function!
I’m really pleased to be able to welcome you on the #Engineering channel, but it’s not just virtual. In real life, we try to see each other regularly. Twice a year, you can skip the entire engineering team to another location in Europe, and at least once a year, join the rest of the company and spend time with other departments.
What will your future look like?
Personal growth is key to staying motivated. As Silverfin’s manager, you will be participating in your first leadership development program and regular leadership day. Of course, your manager is there to coach and coach you in your role. Plus, everyone will win a budget of 1200 euros a year and spend it on meetings, courses, workshops or other training to improve and level up their skills. This includes accommodation and travel expenses. If the meeting is on a working day, you will be paid in the same way as on a regular day.
Requirements
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You are leading a team with at least 2 years experience
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I have recent experience as a senior software engineer
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You know or are interested to learn ruby ​​on the rail
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Working hours overlap with EU business hours (local time zone must be within CET +/- 3H)
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You can travel 3-4 times a year with pleasure
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You can communicate clearly in English in writing and verbally
I’m glad I have it
These are good, but they are not absolutely necessary. Don’t worry if none of the following applies to you.
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Ruby on Rails experience
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Experience as a remote worker with a complete remote team
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Experience with large datasets and experience dealing with problems they pose
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API design experience is a powerful plus
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Experience using JavaScript frameworks
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Fintech experience
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Accounting knowledge
Are you interested?
You can apply today and the interview will begin on 06/05. There is no benefit to applying it early, so it can take some time to answer your application questions. Have a question at Engineering-jobs@silverfin.com
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/silverfin-team-lead-product-engineering-team-1