Silverfin: Player-Coach Engineering Team Lead

About the Role

Headquarters:
Gent, Belgium
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We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our remote‑first department and take the helm of Team Syncs
. This is a Player‑Coach role, meaning you’ll balance hands‑on technical contributions with people management, mentoring, and ensuring your team is aligned with the company’s business priorities.

If you thrive on both writing great code and fostering an environment where engineers can grow and do their best work—especially in the complex domain of data ingestion and API management—this is for you.

• Impact
  :
  Guide Team Syncs, a mission‑critical team responsible for bringing complex financial data into Silverfin and ensuring its accuracy.
• Challenge
  :
  Work with 30+ external APIs, financial algorithms, and manage a public API for external integrations.
• Balance
  :
  Enjoy actual work‑life balance with flexible hours and no expectation of working beyond your contractual obligations.
• Growth
  :
  Participate in our Leadership Development Programme and receive a €1200 yearly budget for professional development.
• Perks
  :
  Two engineering retreats per year somewhere in Europe and ten company‑wide Wellbeing Days per year (a paid Friday off).

For this role, the compensation range is €112 000 – €169 000 a year. Most candidates start at the lower to mid part of the range, depending on experience and how their profile compares to our existing team. The higher end is typically offered to individuals with a track record of strong impact and deep expertise in similar roles. We run annual compensation reviews, so there is clear opportunity for growth as you progress in the role.

At Silverfin, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation. We value all our colleagues and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other characteristic. We believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives. To ensure an equitable hiring process, our policy is to only move to the interviewing stage once we have a sufficiently representative and diverse pool of applicants.

This might mean a slight delay in scheduling interviews, but it’s a vital step in our commitment to genuine equity.

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t check every single box. We are looking for potential and unique contributions. Tell us how you can help us achieve our mission!

As the Team Lead for Team Syncs
, you will manage, mentor, and contribute to a team focused on the backbone of our platform—data connectivity and integrity.

• Manage and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with the team’s Product Manager to set clear goals and priorities for data synchronization and API development.
• Partner with Team #1 of your fellow TLs to maintain a well‑aligned Engineering department.
• Live the Silverfin values and be a role model for your team.

• Actively contribute to the team’s codebase, dividing time between technical work and people management.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of integrations with external bookkeeping APIs, ensuring reliable and accurate data flow.
• Guide the team in maintaining our public Sync API, enabling third parties to build seamless bookkeeping integrations with Silverfin.
• Help the team refine algorithms and financial calculations necessary for data accuracy and correctness within the platform.
• Help with discovery and delivery of the best solutions for customer and business challenges.

• 2 years of experience leading a team, including direct people management.
• Recent hands‑on experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
• Expertise with or willingness to quickly learn and work with Ruby on Rails.
• Enthusiasm and familiarity with AI tools for software development.
• Ability to communicate clearly in English
  , both verbally and in writing.
• Work hours have some overlap with EU business…