Senior Manager Software Engineering (Remote)

Socure is the world leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention. Our recent awards include Forbes 2022 America’s Best Startup Employers, The Forbes Cloud 100, The Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies.

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About The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to lead our innovative Document Verification team. As the leader of this product engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in driving business impact, guiding technical direction, and fostering the growth of engineers. This role requires an empathetic leader with a strong technical background, problem-solving skills, broad

engineering expertise, and a passion for mentoring and developing talent.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and manage two to three engineering pods, comprising backend, frontend, and mobile engineers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with globally distributed teams, including Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and Data Science/Machine Learning, to conceptualize and develop new features and products in an agile environment.
• Technical Direction: Drive the technical strategy, ensuring applications are built using best practices, modern technologies, and scalable architectures. You will influence and align the team on architecture and technical decisions.
• Roadmap Planning: Collaborate with product and engineering leads to plan team roadmaps that align with business goals.
• Mentorship and Growth: Guide and mentor junior and senior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and high performance within the team.
• Code Quality: While hands-on coding is optional, you are expected to set high standards for code quality, conduct code reviews, and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Key Results Ownership: Take ownership of delivering key results and high-impact outcomes for the Document Verification team, ensuring alignment with business objectives

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in software development, demonstrating the ability to deliver complex, user-friendly solutions.
• Leadership: 3+ years of leadership experience as an IC leading teams of at least 5 engineers, or 2+ years as an engineering manager leading teams of 8 or more.
• Full Stack Expertise: Proven experience in leading full stack teams, including backend, machine learning, web, and mobile engineering.
• Technical Skills: Strong background in backend development, including cloud technologies to support ML-based applications, and client-side technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, native iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and React Native.
• Project Leadership: Demonstrated experience in driving large-scale projects involving full stack engineering teams and other technical teams, such as ML/DS, infrastructure, DevOps, and other product teams.
• Influence and Alignment: Ability to influence, guide, and align the team on architecture and technical decisions.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex engineering and business problems across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP), observability platforms (e.g., Datadog), and data platforms (e.g., Databricks).
• Computer Vision & ML Models: Strong experience with computer vision and machine learning models, particularly in deploying and integrating these models into both backend services and client applications.
• Performance Optimization: Proven ability to optimize the performance of applications and systems.
• Leadership: A strong leadership track record, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and elevate the engineering team.

Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise.

We empower excellence by providing great perks and benefits to both our fully remote employees in North America and our hybrid teams in India.

To learn more, check out Socure’s Career Page: https://www.socure.com/company/careers

Socure is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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• Socure’s Impact on Financial Inclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nBc6s1wsU
• Socure’s Impact on Fraud Prevention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M46UG8QyKe4
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