Position: Engineering Lead / Team Lead (Decentralized Identity Application)
Company: Affinidi
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

What you’ll do:
- Lead the engineers in Affinidi’s Verifiable Credentials Management System (VCMS) Squad building a product that will enable the company to reach its goal of having a billion users by 2025
- Architect, design and lead the full-stack build of projects including frontend, back-end, databases, etc.
- Mentor engineers on Technical Architecture, System Design, Quality Driven Engineering, and assign them day-to-day dev tasks
- Support your team in Agile and DevSecOps left-shift to ensure quality driven engineering excellence and security standards
- Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders and senior leadership on a regular basis
- Lead and create a diverse, inclusive, collaborative, transparent culture where everyone’s ideas and opinions are valued
- Leverage Open source and build the community around decentralized tech to facilitate open source contributions
- Mentor / Guide / Serve engineers in your team to create a high performance engineering culture
- Work well with global teams across different time zones effectively

You should apply if you have:
- 7+ years of full-time experience as software developer, with at least 2 years of experience leading engineering teams
- Experience working on AWS stack, Infrastructure as Code, Deploying and maintaining Microservices in a container environment (i.e. Kubernetes)
- Experience working with frontend libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, AngularJS, and VueJS
- Experience creating backend services and working with different kinds of databases
- Good working knowledge on design patterns, OOP and Functional Programming
- Experience building / consuming OpenAPI (Swagger) and/or GraphQL specifications
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and processes
- MVP mindset with the ability to switch from scrappy solutions to mature engineering depending on the project

Bonus points if:
- Experience building systems that require cryptography
- Experience building authentication systems, understanding of common authentication patterns
- Experience with web3 technologies such as blockchain, SSI, decentralized technology

Logistics:

Here is the interview process for this role:
- 60min Functional Round with our Engineering Manager (Technical chat + Leadership skills + Culture fit)
- A take-home case study exercise (System, Process and Team Design)
- 90min Case Study Presentation Round

We can be flexible with the structure if someone’s circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know!

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.