Engineering Lead, Backend - Berlin, Deutschland - Affinidi

Affinidi

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Berlin, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

About the Company

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 decentralised 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 in search of a self-motivated, solution-oriented and experienced
Engineering Lead (M/F/d) 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.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering.

Our work culture at Affinidi is shaped by the following tenets:

_We are unapologetically customer-focused_

- _We invest in cultures and teams to enable high performance_
- _Embraces experimentation and builds fast_
- _We have the courage to be misunderstood_
- _We work together to unlock data_

What's in it for you:

Lead the engineering team to develop features and improvements to the Affinidi Elements product in a secure, welltested, and performant way, primarily using Typescript & React.
Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations for the tasks on team and crossteam level.
Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (eg UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fastpaced, 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 highscale 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 mínimal guidance and support. Collaborate with crossfunctional 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.
Lead and create a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent culture where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued

You will be a great match if you:

You have a minimum of 10 years of overall experience. Have experience with performance and optimization problems, a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent such problems, and a desire to share your knowledge and scale through others
Enjoy leading the engineering team in a fastpaced 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.
Have strong experience of leading the team in delivering production quality products according to industry standards.
Have expertise in leading development of external APIs and SDKs.
Good understanding of asynchronous cryptography
Have strong technical documentation skills, including the C4 Model and Architectural Decision Records
Desire to move forward the state of the art by delivering solutions to unlock data ownership with a strong focus on decentralized technology
Are a passionate developer with extensive experience using Javascript, Typescipt, and React. Other languages (CSharp, C++, GoLang, Rust for example) are also attractive skills for this role.
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 trackrecord in doing so
Care about privacy by design, security, testing, highperformance systems, and mentoring others, and have an inclination towards clear communication, inclusion and visibility

What can you expect from us: