Senior Technical Lead

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 decentralized 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.

About the Role:

• We are seeking 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:

• 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.

• 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 Node.js.
• Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations for the tasks on team and cross-team level.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (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 practices inside the team and department.
• Confidently own delivery of significantly complex features and improvements with minimal guidance and support.
• 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.
• Create a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent culture where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued.

• A minimum of 10 years of overall experience.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent such problems, and a desire to share knowledge and scale through others.
• Enjoy leading the engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment where the team can be autonomous and experimental, be part of a truly global team, and can work up and down the stack.
• Enjoy making hands dirty with coding yourself.
• Though you know the balance: when to sit and code together with the team, when to delegate coding, and do other things.
• Have strong experience of leading the team in delivering production-quality products according to industry standards.
• Have expertise in leading development of developer experience tools, like CLI, SDK, Developer portal.
• Have strong technical documentation skills, including the C4 Model and Architectural Decision Records.
• Have expertise in cloud computing and native environments (AWS serverless preferred).
• Understand design patterns and have working experience in leading development and deployment of microservices in the cloud, and have a proven track-record in doing so.
• Are hands-on with REST APIs and are able to apply Test-Driven Development principles effectively.
• Care about privacy by design, security, testing, high-performance systems, and mentoring others, and have an inclination towards clear communication, inclusion, and visibility.

• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Work within an international environment.
• Learning budget.

If you're looking for a challenging role that allows you to grow professionally and personally, then this might be the opportunity for you. Apply now to take the first step towards a fulfilling career.