Engineering Manager, Application Development (m/f/d)

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 Manager (m/f/d) with focus on Application Development, 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 the continued enhancement and development of consumer-facing applications, 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 Senior Engineering Manager. 

 
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 
• We embrace experimentation and build 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, well-tested, and performant way, primarily using Dart/Flutter.
• Collaborate in building the product and technology roadmap with peers, product managers, designers and stakeholders.
• Confidently own delivery of significantly complex features and improvements with minimal guidance and support. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and peers on larger projects.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Guide the team in crafting code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale systems environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through practices inside the team and department.
• 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: 

• Have a minimum of 10 years of overall experience.
• Demonstrate strong experience with SDK design and lifecycle, including versioning, backward compatibility, documentation, and developer onboarding.  
• Maintain and contribute to open-source SDKs, including responding to issues, reviewing external contributions, and maintaining high code quality and community engagement. 
• Have strong proficiency in Dart/Flutter and a deep understanding of its ecosystem (including state management, widget libraries, and asynchronous programming).  
• Have experience in multi-platform production development using Flutter from a single codebase, focusing on web, mobile and desktop applications. 
• Have proven experience in native mobile development on at least one platform (e.g., iOS or Android). 
• 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).
• Have strong experience of leading the team in delivering production