About this role
Team leadership & coaching - Provide mentorship and day-to-day support to developers and data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning. Help senior engineers grow junior colleagues and keep knowledge flowing across the team. Technical project leadership - Lead the delivery of technical projects end to end - infrastructure, platform, security, tooling and cross-cutting engineering initiatives - from scoping through rollout. Business-driven projects are owned by Product Owners; you partner closely with them while taking the lead on the technical roadmap and its execution. Recruitment & onboarding - Lead hiring for developers, infrastructure engineers, and data & AI specialists. Design and oversee onboarding that integrates new hires quickly and effectively into the team and its practices. Process refinement - Work with Product Owners to shape and fine-tune agile practices (backlog management, sprint planning, retrospectives) that maximise productivity and keep focus on strategic priorities. Continuously trial new techniques - such as AI-assisted coding and process automation - to raise efficiency and quality. Visibility & communication - Ensure transparent reporting of achievements, roadmaps and risks to stakeholders. Run regular updates on progress, risks and resource needs, and build a shared understanding of priorities across engineering, product and business. Collaboration & facilitation - Act as the bridge between developers, Product Owners, data scientists and external partners. Facilitate discussions on requirements and dependencies so projects run smoothly and teams stay aligned. Technical oversight - Bring deep, hands-on experience with our stack or equivalent (AWS, .NET, Angular, Python, event-driven micro-services), enough real depth to debug a production issue or challenge an architectural decision yourself, not just follow the conversation. Champion security best practices and infrastructure improvements, while delegating implementation to subject-matter experts. Culture & growth - Foster an environment where engineers feel accountable and empowered to take ownership. Encourage curiosity and a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset, and promote AI and emerging tools that streamline work and sharpen the team's skills. Several years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer, Architect, or DevOps/Platform Engineer, ideally followed by a move into a people-management or tech-lead role. Experience managing engineering or cross-functional teams, with a track record of coaching people and growing their skills. A record of leading technical projects or initiatives through to delivery. Proven ability to design and refine agile or lean processes that improve delivery effectiveness. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable presenting plans, progress and blockers to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Organised and detail-oriented, able to juggle multiple initiatives without losing sight of the big picture. Comfortable introducing new tools and techniques (e.g., AI-assisted development) and measuring their impact. Enough technical literacy in cloud infrastructure, web technologies and DevOps pipelines to understand team challenges and shape high-level decisions. Fluency in French or Dutch alongside professional English. Nice to have Prior experience in fintech or other regulated environments. Experience working with near-shore or hybrid teams. Opportunity to be part of a great and extremely motivating start-up adventure. A pleasant working environment, conveniently located outside Brussels and easily accessible by car, avoiding the usual traffic. A company culture valuing empowerment and bringing career development perspectives. Competitive salary package related to your profile and experience.