Engineering Manager (Identity)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for identity platform services.
• Hire, onboard, mentor and retain strong engineers; support career development through regular feedback, coaching and technical guidance.
• Create clarity for the team by translating business and platform goals into an actionable engineering roadmap.
• Foster an inclusive, accountable and collaborative engineering culture based on ownership, learning, respect and continuous improvement.
• Build strong engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, code reviews, testing, release readiness, incident reviews and operational excellence.

• Own delivery and operation of core identity capabilities, including:
  • Authentication and sign-in flows
  • Authorisation and access-control services
  • Role-based and attribute-based access models
  • Service-to-service authentication
  • Identity lifecycle and account management
  • Token, session and credential-related services
  • Identity APIs and integration patterns for product teams
• Ensure the platform is secure, resilient, scalable and easy for internal product teams to integrate with.
• Drive platform evolution from product-specific identity logic towards reusable, governed and well-documented identity services.
• Work with security, product, architecture and platform teams to ensure identity services support current and future business needs.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams responsible for backend, platform, security, infrastructure or identity-related systems.
• Strong software engineering background with experience designing, building and operating distributed systems.
• Practical understanding of identity and access management concepts, such as authentication, authorisation, SSO, MFA, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, RBAC, ABAC, tokens, sessions and service-to-service authentication.
• Experience running production services with high availability, strong observability and clear operational ownership.
• Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing strategy and production readiness.
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices and security-by-design principles.
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives, manage dependencies and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineering, product, security and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, mentor and grow engineers.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• English proficiency at B2 level or above, including the ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly in written and spoken English with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

• Experience building or operating customer identity, workforce identity, IAM, CIAM, authentication or authorisation platforms.
• Experience with high-scale, low-latency, cloud-native services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerised services, service mesh, API gateways or event-driven architecture.
• Experience with security-sensitive systems, regulated environments or platforms handling personal data.
• Experience defining platform roadmaps and driving adoption across multiple product teams.
• Experience with incident management, SRE practices, SLOs, operational reviews and post-incident improvement.
• Experience with Golang, Python, Java, C#, TypeScript or similar modern engineering stacks.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (strongly preferred), Azure, or GCP.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, security, compliance and infrastructure teams.

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 1100+ cities in 48 countries
• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs
• Annual salary from 90 700 EUR gross