Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

Socure is building identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy to verify identities and prevent fraud in real time. As a hands-on technical leader, you will define engineering direction, raise standards, and deliver product outcomes while remaining involved in design and development. This role requires a leader who can architect scalable systems, mentor engineers, and drive complex cross-team initiatives in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, resilient, high-performance backend systems and platforms in AWS.
• Contribute hands-on to design reviews, prototyping, coding, performance tuning, and debugging.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives, establish engineering guardrails, and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Platform teams to define project scope and milestones.
• Own the design of APIs and microservices, enforcing best practices for versioning and compatibility.
• Advance operational excellence by defining SLOs, improving observability, and leading incident response.
• Foster team growth through mentorship, clear expectations, and hiring diverse talent.

Required skills

• Backend systems
• Technical leadership
• Golang
• Java
• AWS
• Microservices
• API design
• Event-driven systems
• Containerization
• Kubernetes
• Observability
• CI/CD
• Distributed systems

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership
• Permanent right to work in the UK

About the Company

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy, verifying identities in real time and stopping fraud. The company focuses on building mission-critical systems that deliver high reliability and operate at global scale.