Engineering Manager - Identity Verification

About SEON

SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, helping thousands of companies worldwide stop fraud, reduce risk, and protect revenue. Powered by 900+ real-time, first-party data signals, SEON enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior, and streamlines compliance workflows - all from one place. SEON provides richer data, more flexible and transparent analysis, and faster time to value than any other provider on the market. We’ve helped companies reduce fraud by 95% and achieve 32x ROI, and we’re growing fast, thanks to our partnerships with some of the world’s most ambitious digital brands like Revolut, Wise, and Bilt.

The Role of an Engineering Manager - Identity Verification

As an Engineering Manager for our IDV team, you will lead a highly experienced team of 6 senior full-stack engineers dedicated to SEON's most strategic initiatives and critical product developments. Your primary purpose is to empower this high-performing team to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions, ensuring technical excellence, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and strategically aligning the team's efforts with SEON's overarching business goals. You will be instrumental in navigating complex technical challenges and driving significant product advancements that directly contribute to SEON's success.

This role will be based in our Budapest location with a hybrid schedule.

What You Will Do

Strategic Leadership & Team Empowerment

• Visionary Guidance: Define and communicate a clear technical vision for the team, aligning it with SEON's strategic priorities and product roadmap. Inspire and motivate senior engineers to achieve ambitious goals.
• High-Impact Delivery: Accountable for the successful, on-time delivery of complex, critical projects that are central to SEON's "biggest bets." Ensure the team consistently meets and exceeds predefined requirements and quality standards.
• Technical Excellence & Innovation: Drive architectural decisions, foster a culture of technical innovation, and ensure the adoption of best practices in software design, security, code quality, performance, and scalability across the team's critical projects.
• Risk Mitigation & Problem Solving: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate technical and operational risks associated with high-stakes projects. Lead the team in effectively troubleshooting and resolving complex issues with minimal time to resolution.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as a key liaison and representative for the team in discussions and agreements with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, and Customer Success, ensuring seamless collaboration and strategic alignment on priorities and initiatives.

Development Lifecycle & Operational Excellence

• Optimized Methodologies: Continuously optimize and nurture the team's development methodologies and lifecycle, focusing on agility as well as predictability, rapid iteration, and high-quality outcomes for critical projects.
• Technical Debt & Improvement: Establish and refine processes for identifying, collecting, and strategically addressing technical debt. Propose and lead technical improvement initiatives that enhance the team's efficiency and product robustness.
• Metrics-Driven Improvement: Analyze team and component-specific engineering metrics and measures, translating insights into actionable strategies for continuous improvement.

People Leadership & Development (for Senior Talent)

• Performance & Recognition: Foster a high-performance culture through continuous, constructive feedback and recognition tailored to senior contributors. Identify and address team bottlenecks, optimizing efficiency and empowering autonomous problem-solving.

What You Will Bring

• Leadership Experience: 3+ years of proven experience in mentoring, leading, and managing highly senior software engineers, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.
• Full-Stack Expertise: 7+ years of extensive experience in full-stack SaaS/web application development, with a deep understanding of complex, distributed systems.
• React Proficiency: 2+ years of hands-on experience with React, demonstrating expertise in building scalable and maintainable front-end architectures.
• Node.js Proficiency: 2+ years of strong experience with NodeJS, preferably NestJS, including designing and implementing robust back-end services.
• Technical Acumen: Exceptional software engineering capabilities in JavaScript and TypeScript, coupled with profound knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 and designing/implementing RESTful API development.
• Cloud & DevOps Savvy: Solid experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud providers (AWS preferred, including experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform).
• Agile & Adaptability: Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, Agile development environment, demonstrating strong adaptability and problem-solving skills for ambiguous and complex challenges.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to think strategically, design, and implement end-to-end solutions that align with business objectives and technical vision.
• Communication: Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Problem-Solving: Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on root cause analysis and proactive solution recommendation.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Leadership
• Full-Stack Development
• React.js
• Node.js
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Distributed Systems
• AWS Cloud
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Agile Methodologies
• Architectural Design