Senior Engineering Manager
Affinidi provides privacy-first infrastructure and open standards for digital identity, verifiable credentials, trusted data exchange, and AI-agent trust. Its products serve developers, enterprises, security teams, compliance teams, healthcare providers, marketplaces, gig-economy platforms, and employment ecosystems.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Projects
About Affinidi
Affinidi builds trust infrastructure for individuals, businesses, systems, and AI agents. Its offerings include Affinidi Trust Fabric for agent identity, policy enforcement, observability, and settlement; Affinidi Radix for decentralized trust networks, registries, runtime queries, and governance; Affinidi Elements for verifiable credentials, user-controlled wallets, and DIDComm messaging; and Affinidi Forge, a developer toolkit with SDKs, CLI tools, a portal, documentation, and open-source projects. The organization focuses on privacy-preserving identity, secure data exchange, open standards, cryptographic verification, and user data sovereignty. Its clients and users include enterprise security and compliance teams, platform and operations teams, developers, healthcare providers, marketplace platforms, gig-economy companies, educational organizations, and employers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead multiple engineering teams, coach engineering leaders, drive reliable delivery, and guide architecture for secure and scalable distributed systems. You will shape engineering practices, contribute to critical technical decisions, collaborate with product and design stakeholders, and champion privacy and security across backend and frontend development.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations in global high-growth environments
- Strong leadership coaching mentoring and team development skills
- Ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience with React Next.js and/or Flutter
- Experience designing deploying and scaling microservices in AWS cloud environments
- Knowledge of privacy security cryptography and resilient system design
- Experience balancing technical and people leadership
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience working in fast-moving startup environments
- Dart experience is preferred
- Familiarity with C# or Go is a plus
- Rust backend expertise is a bonus
- Experience with decentralized identity solutions is a bonus
- Experience building systems with advanced cryptography requirements is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams
- Coach managers staff engineers and senior individual contributors
- Drive engineering execution and on-time delivery
- Oversee the design and development of distributed production systems
- Define technology roadmaps with product design and business stakeholders
- Establish engineering practices delivery processes and quality standards
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders
- Guide architecture and technical strategy
- Champion privacy by design and security-first principles
Benefits
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Learning budget
- Mobile allowance
- Home office allowance
- Urban Sport membership
