Engineering Manager, Full Stack

Affinidi is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for their Elements team to lead the development and enhancement of a multi-component platform. This role involves guiding a global team in building features using Typescript, NodeJs, and React, collaborating with product management and stakeholders, and advocating for product quality and performance. The manager will also mentor engineers, foster a collaborative culture, and contribute to the product and technology roadmap.

Must Have

• Lead engineering team to develop features for Affinidi Elements product securely and performantly.
• Analyze complex data for actionable recommendations.
• Interpret complex problems into actionable team tasks.
• Collaborate with Product Management and UX for quality.
• Contribute to product and technology roadmap.
• Advocate for product quality, security, and performance.
• Guide team in solving technical problems of large scope and complexity.
• Guide team in crafting code meeting internal standards and best practices.
• Own delivery of complex features, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Coach and mentor engineers for career growth.
• Create a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent culture.
• Minimum 10 years overall experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong leadership in setting vision, fostering autonomy, mentoring, and driving collaboration.
• Experience leading teams to deliver production-quality products to industry standards.
• Excellent technical writing skills.
• Hands-on technical leader with strong coding skills and pragmatic approach.
• Deep experience in diagnosing and preventing performance and optimization issues.
• Solid background in cloud-native environments (AWS serverless preferred), microservices, event-driven architectures.
• Proficient in design patterns and architectural documentation (C4 Model, ADRs).
• Experience building developer tools (CLIs, SDKs, developer portals).
• Extensive experience with Javascript, Typescript, Node.JS and React.
• Hands-on with REST APIs, Test-Driven Development.
• Committed to privacy by design, security, high-performance systems and inclusive communication.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with other languages like Rust, Dart or Go.

Perks & Benefits

• Hybrid working model
• Flexible working hours
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Competitive compensation package
• Work within international environment
• Learning Budget
• Mobile Allowance
• Home Office Allowance
• Urban Sport Membership

About the Company

Affinidi is a technology company dedicated to changing data ownership for good. 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.

Affinidi’s technology enables users to benefit from decentralised digital identity solutions. We believe that everyone has the right to own and control their data, and we are committed to creating a trusted digital credentials ecosystem that empowers businesses and individuals to securely exchange data and services across borders and industries.

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About the role:

We are in search of a self-motivated, solution-oriented and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Affinidi Elements team. In this role, you will work with global peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product portfolio, from the product, design, infrastructure, architecture, and back/front-end engineering teams. You will be responsible for leading continued enhancement and development of a multi-component platform, where your expert skills in designing, architecting, and building quality systems will intersect with your leadership skills of building high performing team culture and growing your team members.

Our work culture at Affinidi is shaped by the following tenets:

• We are unapologetically customer-focused
• We invest in cultures and teams to enable high performance
• We embrace experimentation and build fast
• We have the courage to be misunderstood
• We work together to unlock data

What’s in it for you:

• Lead the engineering team to develop features and improvements to the Affinidi Elements product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way, primarily using Typescript with NodeJs and React (also good portion Dart and React).
• Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations for the tasks on team and cross-team level.
• Analyze and interpret highly complex problems and convert them into actionable tasks for the team.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Collaborate in building the product and technology roadmap with peers, product managers, designers and stakeholders.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Guide the team in solving technical problems with large scope and complexity
• Guide the team in crafting code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale systems environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through best practices within the team and department.
• Own delivery of significantly complex features and improvements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and peers on larger projects.
• Lead by example and constantly coach and mentor engineers in achieving the next level of career and professional growth.
• Lead and create a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent culture where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued

You will be a great match if you:

• Have a minimum of 10 years of overall experience with a proven track record of leading engineering teams to deliver production-quality products in fast-paced, global environments.
• Possess strong leadership skills in setting vision, fostering autonomy, mentoring, and driving collaboration across global, fast-paced environments.
• Have strong experience leading teams to deliver production-quality products according to industry standards, combined with excellent technical writing skills and the ability to guide the development and deployment of complex systems into production.
• Are a hands-on technical leader with strong coding skills and a pragmatic approach - able to balance direct contribution with strategic delegation. Deep experience in diagnosing and preventing performance and optimization issues, and passionate about scaling knowledge through mentorship.
• Bring a solid background in cloud-native environments (AWS serverless preferred), microservices, and event-driven architectures. Proficient in design patterns and architectural documentation (C4 Model, ADRs).
• Have experience in building developer tools such as CLIs, SDKs, and developer portals, ensuring seamless developer workflows.
• Possess extensive experience with Javascript, Typescript, Node.JS and React; familiarity with other languages like Rust, Dart or Go is a plus.
• Are hands-on with REST APIs, Test-Driven Development, and committed to privacy by design, security, high-performance systems and inclusive communication.

What can you expect from us:

• Hybrid working model
• Flexible working hours
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Competitive compensation package
• Work within international environment
• Learning Budget
• Mobile Allowance
• Home Office Allowance
• Urban Sport Membership

Sounds like you? Apply now!

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We believe in hiring different and diverse talent and providing a safe space where everyone can share their views without fear, where differences are celebrated, and where no one is left out. Inclusive cultures are the foundation for collaboration and innovation within our team.

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