Front-End Engineering Manager

Front-End Engineering Manager

You will drive engineering excellence, establish best practices, evolve our design system/UI component library, and collaborate closely with Product, Backend, and DevOps teams to deliver world-class user experiences.

Roles & Responsibilities

Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing front-end engineering team.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance evaluations, and individual development plans.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and architecture.
• Drive sprint planning, estimation, technical scoping, and delivery accountability.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Technical Execution

• Architect, design, and review front-end solutions that are scalable, modular, secure, and low-latency.
• Oversee development of reusable UI components, design systems, and front-end frameworks.
• Ensure high standards for accessibility, performance optimization, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate with backend teams to define efficient API interfaces and data contracts.
• Make architectural decisions on React state management, caching strategies, bundling, code splitting, and micro-frontend approaches (if applicable).

Product & Delivery

• Partner closely with Product Managers & Designers to translate requirements into elegant, intuitive user experiences.
• Own end-to-end delivery of front-end features with predictability and high quality.
• Ensure proper instrumentation, analytics, and observability for front-end features.
• Proactively identify technical debt and lead modernization/refactoring initiatives.

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Implement automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E) to ensure reliability.
• Ensure front-end applications follow secure coding standards and compliance guidelines.
• Drive performance audits and implement improvements to achieve sub-second load times where possible.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 8+ years of professional front-end development experience, with at least

  3+ years in a leadership/manager role

  .
• Expert-level proficiency in:

• React

  (Hooks, Context, Redux/Zustand/Recoil or similar)

• JavaScript & TypeScript

• Tailwind CSS

  & modern CSS architecture

• Node.js

  (front-end tooling, SSR, build pipelines, etc.)
• Strong experience working in

  B2B SaaS

  products with complex workflows and high scale.
• Proven ability to build

  high-performance, low-latency, scalable

  front-end systems.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD, code quality frameworks, bundlers (Vite/Webpack), and testing tools (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright).
• Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions and own front-end technical strategy.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with

  design systems

  , Storybook, or component libraries.
• Familiarity with

  micro-frontends

  , module federation, or large-scale app decomposition.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containerization, and API performance optimization.
• Prior experience integrating with analytics platforms, feature flag systems, or A/B testing frameworks.
• Understanding of WebSockets, real-time interfaces, and state synchronization at scale.

What We Are Looking For

• A hands-on leader who can review PRs, guide architecture, and unblock engineers when needed.
• A strong communicator who collaborates across product, design, and backend engineering.
• Someone who cares deeply about user experience, performance, reliability, and clean code.
• A builder mentality — someone excited to create foundational systems, iterate rapidly, and scale.