Senior Engineering Manager- Frontend

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor & grow a team of frontend engineers: set clear career paths, provide regular coaching, conduct performance reviews.
• Architect & design robust, scalable, maintainable frontend systems (web applications, dashboards, etc.).
• Ensure high standards of code quality, best practices for architecture, component design, UI/UX, test coverage, performance, accessibility.
• Ownership of frontend tech stack decisions (frameworks, libraries, patterns) & ensuring consistency across teams.
• Collaborate cross?functionally with Product, UX/Design, Backend, QA, DevOps to plan, estimate, prioritize, and deliver features.
• Drive implementation of workflows involving complex state management, real?time / high interactivity, responsive frontends.
• Oversee delivery from design through deployment: code, reviews, optimization, debugging, performance tuning.
• Establish and enforce best practices: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, UI performance metrics, front?end security.
• Handle trade?offs between quick delivery and long?term maintainability.
• Proactively identify tech debt, refactoring opportunities, and plan for evolutionary architecture improvements.
• Monitor and measure performance (e.g. page load, rendering, bundle size, resource usage) and ensure frontend stays performant even under scale.
• Stay current with frontend technologies, tools, web standards and push adoption of improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

• 8?13+ years

  of relevant frontend engineering experience, with at least

  3?5 years

  in a leadership / management role. (For Senior EM, could even be more depending on scope.)
• Strong hands?on experience with frontend frameworks / librariesespecially

  React.js / Redux

  , maybe React Native.
• Deep understanding of HTML, CSS/SASS/LESS, modern JS (ES6+ / TypeScript), DOM, responsive design, cross?browser compatibility.
• Experience with performance optimizations: bundle splitting, lazy loading, caching, rendering performance, network optimization.
• Good knowledge of REST / HTTP APIs (and optionally GraphQL) and integrating with backend services.
• Experience with front?end testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E), version control (Git), code review practices.
• Strong communication skills: able to articulate tech decisions, trade?offs, and document architectural choices.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity / fast?paced environments, manage multiple stakeholders, adjust to evolving requirements.