Engineering Manager
Affinidi builds privacy-first trust infrastructure for individuals, businesses, and AI agents. Its products support verifiable credentials, user-controlled identity wallets, encrypted DIDComm messaging, trust registries, and governance for secure data exchange.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Affinidi
Affinidi is a data and identity technology company building interoperable trust ecosystems with open standards, decentralized identifiers, verifiable credentials, DIDComm, and privacy-preserving infrastructure. Its offerings include Affinidi Elements for credential issuance and verification, Affinidi Vault for user-controlled credential storage, Affinidi Messaging for encrypted communication, Affinidi Radix and Trust Registry for decentralized trust networks and governance, and Affinidi Trust Fabric and Agent Gateway for identity, policy enforcement, observability, and trust across AI-agent interactions. Affinidi serves developers, enterprises, healthcare providers, marketplaces, gig-economy platforms, employment and onboarding workflows, and other high-trust industries.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You lead the Affinidi Elements engineering team in developing a secure, well-tested, performant platform. You guide architecture, solve complex technical problems, collaborate on the technology roadmap, uphold engineering standards, deliver complex features, and coach engineers while building a diverse and transparent team culture.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams delivering production-quality products
- Strong leadership, mentoring, collaboration, and technical writing skills
- Strong coding skills and a pragmatic hands-on technical approach
- Experience diagnosing and preventing performance and optimization issues
- Knowledge of clean architecture, CI/CD, testing best practices, and coding standards
- Background in cloud-native environments, preferably AWS serverless
- Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency in design patterns, C4 Model, and ADRs
- Experience building CLIs, SDKs, and developer portals
- Extensive experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React
- Experience with REST APIs and Test-Driven Development
- Knowledge of privacy by design, security, and high-performance systems
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering team in developing Affinidi Elements features and improvements
- Analyze complex problems and convert them into actionable tasks
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX, and other stakeholders
- Build the product and technology roadmap with peers and stakeholders
- Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements
- Guide the team in solving large-scale technical problems
- Maintain coding, style, maintainability, and architectural standards
- Own delivery of complex features and improvements
- Coach and mentor engineers
- Create a diverse, collaborative, and transparent team culture
Benefits
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Learning budget
- Mobile allowance
- Home office allowance
- Urban Sport Membership
