Team Lead, Business Solutions

Role Overview

• You are a people leader and technical contributor
• you balance time between leading your team, collaborating with Product, and actively contributing to the work your team delivers on the Silverfin platform.
• You apply your knowledge and expertise in software development to develop and grow the capability within your department.
• You are a people developer: nurturing and growing a team to embrace new ways of working and inspiring them to a sense of purpose.
• You operate in a product-led organisation, working closely with product managers and stakeholders to align technical direction with business outcomes.
• You are comfortable engaging directly with customers and partners when technical depth and credibility are required.
• You report to the Head of Business Solutions and contribute to the broader Business Solutions leadership agenda.
• Write, review, and own code as an active contributor alongside your team
• Lead architecture and design reviews, guiding technical decisions and ensuring consistency across the codebase
• Set and uphold coding standards and architectural principles to keep solutions extensible, maintainable, and stable
• Actively manage technical debt — making and communicating explicit trade-offs between new feature work and code health
• Stay current with relevant technologies and bring meaningful innovations back to the team
• Build a culture of self-development
• coach and mentor team members technically, professionally, and personally
• Own the team's maturity roadmap: identify skill gaps, lead growth plans, and act decisively on both top performance and underperformance
• Evaluate team members and contribute to their career progression
• Take a lead role in building best practices across the full lifecycle of Business Solutions on the Silverfin platform
• Collaborate with Business Solutions leadership on department-wide growth initiatives
• Support resource planning, hiring, and onboarding within Business Solutions
• Promote and fine-tune agile delivery frameworks (Scrum / Kanban) to match your team's needs
• Monitor team performance against Silverfin's goals
• Contribute to industry-leading eNPS by fostering a positive team environment and addressing any issues that impact team satisfaction and engagement
• Protect your team's focus
• absorb organisational noise, remove blockers, and create conditions for deep work
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across the organisation
• Collaborate closely with product managers to align technical solutions with business objectives
• Contribute to the product roadmap with technical insight, capacity planning, and delivery estimates
• Engage confidently with customers and partners in a technical capacity when required
• Advise, steer, and report on improvements to the Head of Business Solutions and the wider leadership team

Requirements

• Proven track record leading development or product teams
• you have made people better and have the results to show for it (min 3 years of experience)
• Hands-on experience building with React and TypeScript
• you are still close to the code and intend to stay that way
• Experience in a product-led SaaS organisation
• you understand how great products are built, not just delivered
• Familiarity with the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and architecture through to delivery and iteration
• Background in fintech, accounting, audit, or tax software is a strong advantage
• domain knowledge helps you make faster, better decisions for our customers
• Prior experience with Liquid is a plus; what matters more is that you are the kind of lead who picks up new languages quickly and enjoys doing so. The successful candidate will become proficient in Liquid
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript
• you write and review production code
• Strong people management skills: coaching, direct feedback, performance management, empathy, and situational leadership
• You actively integrate AI tooling into your development workflow (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
• not just for your own productivity, but to help your team work smarter and stay ahead
• You lead with agile and lean thinking
• Scrum and Kanban are tools you shape to fit the team, not processes you follow for the sake of it
• You can hold your own in a room with customers, commercial stakeholders, and engineers equally
• translating between technical depth and business outcomes without losing either audience
• You have enough accounting, audit, or fintech domain knowledge to make good calls in product reviews, architecture decisions, and correctness discussions
• Ability to work from our London office 2 days per week and align in-office presence with team and cross-functional collaboration needs.
• Ability and desire to travel regularly to our HQ in Ghent

Tech Stack

• JavaScript
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Be part of something bigger – Join a growing SaaS company that’s now proudly part of Visma, Europe’s leader in mission-critical cloud software.
• A connected team – Take part in regular team activities, retreats, and offsites to keep our culture thriving.
• Grow with us – Take advantage of career development opportunities and a personal training allowance to support your growth.
• Time to recharge – Enjoy our company-wide Wellbeing Days off each month (reviewed annually).
• Fair compensation – Receive a competitive rewards package with benefits tailored to your role.
• Flexibility with connection – We have a hybrid setup, with a minimum of two days a week in the office. However, we understand that life can be unpredictable, so we offer flexibility to accommodate unexpected events. Our offices in Belgium (Ghent), the UK (London – Old Street / Shoreditch), the Netherlands (Gouda), Mont-Saint-Guibert, and Luxembourg provide great spaces to collaborate and connect.
• Work where you thrive – Enjoy the freedom of a fully remote setup while staying connected through virtual collaboration