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Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
A Senior Full Stack Engineering Manager leads multiple engineering teams building the Affinidi Elements platform, combining people leadership with hands-on technical leadership across backend, frontend and platform infrastructure.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid
What you'll do
- Lead multiple engineering teams, providing vision, direction, and coaching to managers, staff engineers, and senior ICs
- Drive engineering execution and on-time delivery of secure, performant, and customer-centric systems
- Oversee and contribute to the design and development of high-scale, high-performance distributed production systems
- Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to define and execute the technology roadmap
- Establish and evolve engineering best practices, delivery processes, and quality standards to scale effectively
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, fostering career growth, leadership depth, and technical excellence
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, bringing innovative approaches to improve scalability, architecture, and developer experience
- Champion privacy by design, security-first principles, and high-quality engineering across backend and frontend systems
What we're looking for
- Proven track record of leading engineering organizations in global, high-growth environments while driving on-time delivery of high-quality systems at scale
- Strong leadership skills: coaching, mentoring, developing leaders, and fostering high-performing, inclusive teams
- Skilled at balancing strategic vision with practical execution, aligning engineering teams with business outcomes
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript/Node.js
- Experience with React/Next.js and/or Flutter, demonstrating solid understanding of modern web and/or mobile development practices
- Proven success in designing, deploying, and scaling microservices in cloud environments, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Advocate for privacy, security, cryptography, and resilient system design
- Skilled at balancing technical leadership and people leadership, growing teams while staying engaged in critical technical decisions
- Excel at cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and security stakeholders
- Thrive in fast-moving startup environments, building autonomous teams that experiment, learn, and deliver at speed
Nice to have
- Dart experience is preferred
- Familiarity with C#, Go, or similar is a plus
- Experience with asynchronous cryptography and identity/authentication domains is a strong plus
- Experience working across functions, locations, and time zones
- Backend expertise in RUST
- Expertise in decentralized identity solutions
- Experience building systems with advanced cryptography requirements
Your team
Affinidi Elements
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About Affinidi
Affinidi is a technology company dedicated to changing data ownership for good. Affinidi's technology enables users to benefit from decentralised digital identity solutions.
Mission
We empower businesses and individuals with control and ownership of their data, with a comprehensive approach to managing their holistic identity – accounting for all aspects of their digital footprint while ensuring privacy and security.
What they value
- We are unapologetically customer-focused
- We invest in cultures and teams to enable high performance
- Embraces experimentation and builds fast
- We have the courage to be misunderstood
- We work together to unlock data