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Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day. At Socure, we are revolutionizing digital trust by building mission-critical systems that deliver high reliability and operate at global scale. As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will be a hands-on technical leader who defines direction, raises engineering standards, and delivers measurable product outcomes, all while remaining deeply involved in design and development. This is not a traditional people-management or delivery-management role—here, you will write code, architect solutions, lead complex projects, and coach engineers to maximize their potential. This role is perfect for leaders seeking high-growth, product-driven environments, who are passionate about distributed systems, and who want to directly influence the design of secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure while cultivating top engineering talent.
Job Responsibility:
Architect and design scalable, resilient, high-performance backend systems and platforms in AWS, prioritizing 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 (such as throughput, latency, consistency, and data modeling) with pragmatic decision-making and balanced tradeoffs
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
Requirements:
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale backend systems in production
3+ years of hands-on technical leadership (as 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, and event-driven systems, as well as experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong operational mindset: expert in observability, monitoring, incident response, performance engineering, and adherence to 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 tradeoffs and drive alignment across engineering and product teams
Applicants must have permanent right to work in the UK, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role
This position requires candidates to be based in or within a commutable distance of London, with the ability to attend the office as needed