Team Lead

Summary

Join Silverfin's distributed remote-first engineering team as an Engineering Lead and manage, inspire, and mentor a team of engineers. You will foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement while acting as a cohesive force between your team, the Engineering department, and the company. This role involves a "player-coach" model, balancing hands-on contributions with team management. Silverfin offers a competitive salary (€112,000 - €169,000), flexible working hours, 100% remote work, participation in a Leadership Development Program, a yearly budget for skill improvement, and engineering retreats. The company prioritizes work-life balance and asynchronous communication. Silverfin is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.

Requirements

• You have at least 2 years of leadership experience
• You’re up for managing and mentoring an engineering team
• You have recent experience as a Senior Software Engineer
• You know or are interested in learning Ruby on Rails
• You're interested in getting to know our customers to find the best solution for a given challenge
• You're aware of the trade-offs involved in proper engineering and can make balanced business decisions, keeping in mind all the stakeholders of the project
• You can communicate clearly in English, both verbally and in writing
• You have at least 2 years of experience leading a team
• You have recent experience as a Senior Software Engineer
• You know or are interested in learning Ruby on Rails
• Your work hours have some overlap with EU business hours (we require your local timezone to be within CET +/- 3h)
• Willing and able to travel 3 to 4 times per year
• You can communicate clearly in English, both in writing and verbally

Responsibilities

• Live the [Silverfin values]( https://silverfin.com/careers/ ) and be a role model for the individual contributors
• Collaborate with and support your fellow team leads (we're big believers in a well-aligned Team Number 1)
• Make sure your team is aligned with the other engineering teams and the rest of the organisation, focusing on the highest business priorities
• Lead and mentor the team while closely coordinating with the product manager
• Embrace the "player-coach" model, with a significant portion of your time dedicated to direct technical contributions
• Help with discovery and delivery of the best way to solve a customer or business problem
• Help with maintenance and support of existing functionality

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience as a remote worker in a fully remote team
• Experience working with large datasets and the problems they bring
• Experience in API design is a strong plus
• Some experience using Javascript framework(s)
• Experience in Fintech
• Accounting knowledge

Benefits

• A refreshing work environment with professional, friendly, and welcoming peers
• Actual, proper work-life balance
• A salary range of €112.000 - €169.000 a year
• Flexible working hours and 100% remote work
• Participation in our Leadership Development Program and opportunities for personal growth and mentoring
• A €1200 yearly budget for conferences, courses, workshops, or other expenses that will improve your skills
• Two engineering retreats per year, somewhere in Europe
• Monthly Company-wide Wellbeing Days off (Reviewed Annually)