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About the Role
As Engineering Lead for Identity, you will own and evolve Seven Education's Identity & Access Management platform, built on Keycloak and serving over 10 million users. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, requiring you to ship code and shape the architecture of a security-critical system at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Identity team, a distributed group of engineers across Europe, including running 1:1s, removing blockers, setting technical direction, and growing the team.
- Drive the SSO rollout across all products and own the migration from legacy authentication to the unified Keycloak platform.
- Own the technical architecture of the IAM platform, including Keycloak configuration, custom authenticators, identity brokering, and the multi-tenancy model.
- Act as the primary integration partner for product teams adopting centralized IAM, defining API contracts, reviewing integrations, and ensuring a smooth developer experience.
- Write production code, review pull requests, and make pragmatic technical decisions.
- Mentor engineers, foster knowledge sharing, and continuously raise engineering standards.
- Collaborate closely with the Director of Domain Engineering to align roadmap, priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including at least 2 years in an engineering management or technical lead role.
- Strong PHP development skills, including solid knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean code practices.
- Production experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale, including a solid understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and multi-tenant, high-availability systems.
- Experience leading distributed engineering teams and managing stakeholder relationships across functions.
- Fluent English communication skills.
Skills
- PHP
- Design patterns
- SOLID principles
- Clean code practices
- Identity systems
- Authentication systems
- Authorization systems
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC
- Multi-tenant systems
- High-availability systems
- Keycloak
- SAML
- SCIM
- LDAP
- Symfony
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
Location
- Hamburg
- Berlin
- Koblenz
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- 2+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid models
- Remote work
- Workations within the EU, Switzerland and the UK
- Dedicated learning time
- Access to learning platforms
- Language courses in German and English
- Continuous development opportunities
- Supportive, collaborative environment
- Team-building budget
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Half-days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
- Dog-friendly offices
- Two paid days per year for volunteer activities
About the Company
- Seven Education (formerly Sdui Group) develops a smart, AI-powered platform that helps schools and educational institutions work more efficiently.
- Our products reduce administrative workload, improve communication and enable teachers, institutions, and decision-makers to focus on what matters most: learning, growth and people.
- We are a European EdTech group with 350+ employees, building intuitive and scalable solutions used widely across the education landscape.
- Our ambition is to become Europe’s leading EdTech brand.
Equal Opportunity
- At Seven Education, we believe that diversity drives innovation and inclusion strengthens collaboration.
- We welcome people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives, because transforming education for a better tomorrow starts with equal opportunities today.
- If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.