Experienced Backend Software Engineer (PHP)

• Role: Experienced Backend Software Engineer (PHP)
• Scope: Providing the backend functionality for our product Teamleader Focus
• Location: Ghent, Belgium or fully remote within Europe

Who are we and why should you care?

Teamleader is a SaaS scale-up born in 2012 in Ghent, Belgium, and part of the Visma Group since 2022. Our mission? To make work easier, not harder, for small and medium-sized businesses.

Here’s what we bring to the table:

• Teamleader Focus: the all-in-one tool that helps small businesses optimise CRM, projects, and invoicing.
• Teamleader One: the go-to e-invoicing software that self-employed pros can count on.

We’ve also been growing smarter through strategic acquisitions:

• Teamleader Orbit (2019): helping medium-sized agencies thrive and scale.
• Vectera (2022): powering seamless customer meetings.
• Dexxter (2024): making financial admin a breeze for freelancers.

Curious to learn more about us, our products, and why you’ll love working at Teamleader? Check us out here.

We Are Looking for a Backend Software Engineer to Join us

As a Backend Software Engineer at Teamleader:

• You are a key member of a cross-functional team and responsible for providing the backend functionality of a feature or initiative. You turn functional challenges and acceptance criteria into skillfully crafted and easy maintainable application code.
• Not only that, but you use your experience to pinpoint bugs, bad coding patterns, identify risks and come up with potential solutions.
• Once you get used to the Teamleader way of doing things, you make suggestions to improve the process and code quality.
• You participate in technical discussions, both within your team and with other teams, to come up with solutions for common problems.
• You coach more junior developers through pair programming sessions, code reviews... or just by asking them the right questions.
• You maintain a critical eye towards potential API improvements.
• You monitor the build and deploy pipeline to make sure your team's work ends up in our customers' hands swiftly and adequately

You’d be a great fit for this role if you:

• You have at least 5 years of experience as a software developer, and you have been working in multi-team organizations and on larger software systems.
• You have in-depth, hands-on experience with PHP and its ecosystem and frameworks and a thoughtful understanding of how modern web applications should work.
• You use your experience to pinpoint bugs, do root cause analysis, detect bad coding patterns, identify risks and come up with skillfully crafted (template) solutions.
• You are a craftsperson which takes pride in code quality, excellence of delivery, documentation and refactors.
• You run feasibility checks on multiple ideas or potential solutions and help prioritizing within the team.
• Strong bonus points: experience in SaaS product design and delivery.
• What drives you are solid abstractions, clear technical designs, and driving growth and technical excellence.
• You have good communication skills and consider yourself to be a team player.
• You are not afraid to speak your mind strongly and convincingly to get your point across.
• You aspire technical excellence but are able to balance this with pragmatic reasoning.
• You are able to express yourself fluently and friendly in English, spoken and written.

Why others chose Teamleader: we're lively, not corporate

We have the energy and boldness of a start-up and the expertise and pragmatism of a scale-up. The result: a team of both young and seasoned professionals led by supportive and approachable managers who give recognition and rewards for hard work. You’ll be working in a fast-paced tech environment with open feedback culture and room for initiatives as well as ideas. You’ll have plenty of room to apply your personality, express yourself, and impact our course of action with your insights or ideas.

On top of that, you’ll get:

• An extensive training budget.
• A hybrid working model: a pleasant mix of office and home working (in Belgium or the Netherlands)
• A personal tooling budget, to make working from home as comfortable as from our offices.
• Daily budget-friendly in-house prepared lunch and dinner options (only in our Ghent office), as well as Friyays and numerous sport initiatives!
• Our long-lasting dedication to employee well-being, just take a look at our career page and Instagram to see how we keep the Team(leader) spirit going.

We value diversity

Our ambition is to build and sell a product that helps everyone everywhere (starting with Europe) to work smarter, so we want our team to reflect that. We believe that a diverse, inclusive working environment is crucial to realise that ambition, so we’re committed to continue to build and cherish a culture where every colleague feels welcome, appreciated and heard.

Interested? Questions? Get in touch!