Senior 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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About the Role
You lead multiple engineering teams building the Affinidi Elements platform. You provide technical and people leadership, guide architecture and engineering strategy, oversee secure and scalable distributed systems, establish engineering standards, develop engineering leaders, and support high-quality backend and frontend delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations in global, high-growth environments
- Strong coaching, mentoring, leadership, 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 with asynchronous cryptography and identity or authentication domains is a strong plus
- Experience with cross-functional collaboration
- Backend expertise in Rust is a bonus
- Expertise in decentralized identity solutions is a bonus
- Experience building systems with advanced cryptography requirements is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams
- Provide vision, direction, and coaching to managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors
- Drive engineering execution and on-time delivery
- Oversee and contribute to high-scale distributed production systems
- Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders on the technology roadmap
- Establish engineering best practices, delivery processes, and quality standards
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders
- Improve scalability, architecture, and developer experience
- Champion privacy by design, security-first principles, and engineering quality
- Guide critical technical decisions 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
