Senior Engineering Manager
Affinidi builds privacy-first trust infrastructure for individuals, businesses, and AI agents.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Affinidi
Affinidi is a Singapore private limited technology company founded by Temasek in 2020. Its current offerings include AI-agent identity and governance, decentralized trust registries, verifiable-credential services, user-controlled credential storage, DIDComm messaging, and developer tooling based on open standards.
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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 will lead multiple engineering teams across backend, frontend, and platform infrastructure. You will guide architecture and technical strategy, oversee the design and development of distributed production systems, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, business, and security stakeholders. You will coach engineering leaders and make critical technical decisions that support secure, scalable, high-performance systems.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations in global, high-growth environments
- Leadership skills in coaching, mentoring, developing leaders, and building high-performing inclusive teams
- 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
- Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and security stakeholders
- Experience working in fast-moving startup environments
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams and provide vision, direction, and coaching to managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors
- Drive engineering execution and on-time delivery of secure, performant, customer-centric systems
- Oversee and contribute to the design and development of high-scale distributed production systems
- Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to define and execute the technology roadmap
- Establish and evolve engineering best practices, delivery processes, and quality standards
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders
- Identify emerging technologies that improve scalability, architecture, and developer experience
- Champion privacy by design, security-first principles, and high-quality engineering across backend and frontend systems
Benefits
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Learning budget
- Mobile allowance
- Home office allowance
- Urban Sport membership
