Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy. As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering you will lead technical direction, raise engineering standards, and deliver measurable product outcomes while staying hands‑on in design and development.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, resilient, high‑performance backend systems and platforms in AWS, prioritising reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute hands‑on to key initiatives—including design reviews, prototyping, coding, performance tuning, and debugging—typically 30% of your time, while mentoring engineers and establishing high standards.
• Lead cross‑team technical initiatives; drive design forums, establish engineering guardrails, and ensure high‑quality delivery via code reviews and automation.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Platform teams to define project scope, sequence milestones, and proactively de‑risk execution for iterative releases.
• Own design of APIs and microservices, including REST and event‑driven patterns, and enforce best practices for versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Advance operational excellence by defining SLOs, improving observability and alerting, hardening on‑call procedures and runbooks, and leading incident response and post‑mortems.
• Solve complex distributed system challenges (throughput, latency, consistency, data modelling) with pragmatic decision‑making and balanced trade‑offs.
• Document architectural decisions, service ownership, and operational runbooks to share knowledge and maintain long‑term scalability.
• Foster team growth through clear expectations, actionable feedback, and mentorship; hire, develop, and onboard diverse talent committed to a culture of ownership and collaboration.

Required profile

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large‑scale backend systems in production.
• 3+ years of hands‑on technical leadership (Tech Lead or Manager) with a track record of leading complex, cross‑team projects while contributing to code and design.
• 5+ years of experience with Golang (preferred) and/or Java, plus strong computer‑science fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, distributed systems).
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud‑native architectures and services (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, RDS, S3) and resilience patterns.
• Proficiency with microservices, API design, event‑driven systems, containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong operational mindset: expert in observability, monitoring, incident response, performance engineering, and security best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies (unit, integration, e2e), and modern DevOps workflows; comfortable with Git‑based trunk/branch strategies.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision‑making skills; able to clearly frame trade‑offs and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Permanent right to work in the UK; based in London or within a commutable distance and able to attend the office as needed.