Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d)
HybridBerlin, State of Berlin, Germany
Job Summary
Lead multiple engineering teams building the Affinidi Elements platform, 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 while overseeing the design and development of high-scale, high-performance distributed production systems. Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to define the technology roadmap, establish engineering best practices, and mentor engineering leaders. Champion privacy by design, security-first principles, and high-quality engineering across backend and frontend systems using TypeScript, microservices, and cloud environments. Work within an international environment under a hybrid model with flexible hours and unlimited vacation.
Required Qualifications
- 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, demonstrates solid understanding of modern web and/or mobile development practices
- Demonstrate 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; experience with asynchronous cryptography and identity/authentication domains
- 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
- Experience working across functions, locations, and time zones
- Backend expertise in RUST
- Expertise in decentralized identity solutions
- Experience building systems with advanced cryptography requirements
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Work within international environment
Desired Qualifications
- Dart experience is preferred
- Familiarity with C#, Go, or similar is a plus
- Experience working across functions, locations, and time zones
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