The Role
Lead and grow an engineering team building a secure, scalable identity platform (authentication, authorization, lifecycle, tokens, sessions, APIs). Provide hiring, coaching, roadmap translation, hands-on technical leadership across architecture, code quality, testing, reliability, incident reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product and architecture teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating a secure, scalable and highly available identity platform for our digital products. The team owns critical identity capabilities such as authentication, authorisation, user and service identities, access control, session management, identity lifecycle, integration APIs and platform reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for identity platform services.
- Hire, onboard, mentor and retain strong engineers; support career development through regular feedback, coaching and technical guidance.
- Create clarity for the team by translating business and platform goals into an actionable engineering roadmap.
- Foster an inclusive, accountable and collaborative engineering culture based on ownership, learning, respect and continuous improvement.
- Build strong engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, code reviews, testing, release readiness, incident reviews and operational excellence.
Identity Platform Ownership
- Own delivery and operation of core identity capabilities, including:
- Authentication and sign-in flows
- Authorisation and access-control services
- Role-based and attribute-based access models
- Service-to-service authentication
- Identity lifecycle and account management
- Token, session and credential-related services
- Identity APIs and integration patterns for product teams
- Ensure the platform is secure, resilient, scalable and easy for internal product teams to integrate with.
- Drive platform evolution from product-specific identity logic towards reusable, governed and well-documented identity services.
- Work with security, product, architecture and platform teams to ensure identity services support current and future business needs.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Proven experience managing software engineering teams responsible for backend, platform, security, infrastructure or identity-related systems.
- Strong software engineering background with experience designing, building and operating distributed systems.
- Practical understanding of identity and access management concepts, such as authentication, authorisation, SSO, MFA, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, RBAC, ABAC, tokens, sessions and service-to-service authentication.
- Experience running production services with high availability, strong observability and clear operational ownership.
- Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing strategy and production readiness.
- Strong understanding of secure software development practices and security-by-design principles.
- Ability to lead multiple initiatives, manage dependencies and make pragmatic trade-offs.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineering, product, security and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, mentor and grow engineers.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- English proficiency at B2 level or above, including the ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly in written and spoken English with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or operating customer identity, workforce identity, IAM, CIAM, authentication or authorisation platforms.
- Experience with high-scale, low-latency, cloud-native services.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerised services, service mesh, API gateways or event-driven architecture.
- Experience with security-sensitive systems, regulated environments or platforms handling personal data.
- Experience defining platform roadmaps and driving adoption across multiple product teams.
- Experience with incident management, SRE practices, SLOs, operational reviews and post-incident improvement.
- Experience with Golang, Python, Java, C#, TypeScript or similar modern engineering stacks.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (strongly preferred), Azure, or GCP.
- Experience collaborating with architecture, security, compliance and infrastructure teams.
Why join us
- Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 1100+ cities in 48 countries
- Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
- Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
- Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
- Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
- Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs
- Annual salary from 90 700 EUR gross
Final benefits may vary depending on the location.
About
inDrive is a global tech company on a mission to challenge injustice. We started in 2012 in the coldest city on Earth, when a group of friends created a way for people to agree on fair ride prices. That idea grew into one of the world’s top ride-hailing apps, now with 360M installs across 48 countries.Today, we offer more than rides: from freight and delivery to intercity travel and financial services, all designed to put people first. Our goal is to positively impact 1 billion lives by 2030. Through inVision, our non-profit arm, we support education, entrepreneurship, and equality in underserved communities.Ready to ignite your inner drive?
Skills Required
- Proven experience managing software engineering teams responsible for backend, platform, security, infrastructure or identity-related systems
- Strong software engineering background designing, building and operating distributed systems
- Practical understanding of identity and access management concepts (authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, RBAC, ABAC, tokens, sessions)
- Experience running production services with high availability, observability and clear operational ownership
- Hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing strategy and production readiness
- Strong understanding of secure software development practices and security-by-design principles
- Ability to lead multiple initiatives, manage dependencies and make pragmatic trade-offs
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional and distributed teams
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, mentor and grow engineers
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- English proficiency at B2 level or above
- Experience building or operating customer identity, workforce identity, IAM, CIAM, authentication or authorization platforms
- Experience with high-scale, low-latency, cloud-native services
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerised services, service mesh, API gateways or event-driven architecture
- Experience with security-sensitive systems, regulated environments or platforms handling personal data
- Experience with incident management, SRE practices, SLOs and post-incident improvement
- Experience with Golang, Python, Java, C#, TypeScript or similar modern engineering stacks
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (strongly preferred), Azure, or GCP
- Experience collaborating with architecture, security, compliance and infrastructure teams
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The Company
What We Do
inDrive is a global IT and transportation platform inDrive is one of the world’s fastest growing online ride-hailing services. Its services are available in over 749 cities in 46 countries throughout the world. The Company’s app has been downloaded over 150 million times. inDrive offers other services, including intercity transportation, freight and cargo services, as well as delivery services in different markets of operations. inDrive is based in Mountain View, California, and operates regional hubs in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the countries of the CIS, and employs over 2,000 people. In early 2021, inDrive achieved unicorn status after closing a $140m investment round with Insight Partners, General Catalyst, and Bond Capital, which valued the company at $1.23 billion.
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