Hybrid Remote
Senior Engineering Manager
Digital Identity Company €120 000 - €150 000
Berlin - Germany 🇩🇪
Digital Identity Company Hybrid · Berlin · 2 days onsite per week
Company
Digital Identity & Trust Infrastructure Company
A product-driven technology company building secure, privacy-aware backend infrastructure for identity, authorization, and trust-based systems. The platform supports developers through robust APIs, SDKs, and foundational services designed for scale, security, and long-term evolution.
Overview
This is a Senior Engineering Manager role with responsibility across multiple full-stack teams working on a core platform used by external developers.
You will operate at the intersection of people leadership, technical strategy, and developer experience, owning both execution and long-term direction. The role combines hands-on technical involvement with high-impact organizational leadership.
Responsibilities
Multi-team leadership
- Manage two full-stack engineering teams (10–16 engineers total)
- Support hiring, growth, performance, and team health
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality and ownership
Developer Experience & Platform Ownership
- Own the end-to-end experience for external developers
- Drive the strategy and evolution of SDKs and developer-facing tooling
- Ensure platform usability, reliability, and adoption
Technical Leadership
- Maintain approximately 20% hands-on involvement through:
- Code contributions
- Technical reviews
- Architectural guidance
- Spend ~80% of time on people management, alignment, and system-level thinking
- Guide architectural decisions across teams and services
- Maintain approximately 20% hands-on involvement through:
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership
- Translate product goals into scalable technical execution
- Align teams around shared platform standards and direction
Requirements
- Proven experience managing multiple full-stack teams in a fast-paced environment
- Strong technical background in TypeScript / Node.js
- Production experience with Rust (1–2 years) sufficient to guide technical direction
- Ability to balance hands-on technical depth with people and organizational leadership
- Experience owning developer-facing platforms, APIs, or SDKs is a strong plus
Compensation & Benefits
- **Base salary: Up to €150,000 for exceptional profiles
- Equity: Included
- Bonus & benefits: Included
- Hybrid setup: Berlin (2 days onsite per week)
Send your resume to digital.identity.em@rustjobs.dev
Application process
- Your application goes directly to the Rust Jobs team. We manage hiring for this role on behalf of the company.
- Every CV is read by a human, not a filter. We assess it against the requirements before anything else happens.
- If your application is a strong fit, we'll reach out by email to introduce ourselves and walk you through the next steps with the company.
Application volume is high, so we can't reply to every candidate individually. If you haven't heard from us within 5 working days, please assume we're not moving forward on this occasion. Join our talent network to be considered for future roles.
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