The Manager of Front End Engineering will lead the team responsible for building the platform and tooling for front-end web engineers to enhance their speed and efficiency. This role will focus on providing the necessary tools, processes, and infrastructure to support the product application engineering group, ensuring they can move swiftly with better predictability. Strong communication, analytical skills, and knowledge of best practices are essential for navigating the team through the challenges associated with the development of the front-end platform. You will work closely with product and design teams to ensure our platform is intuitive, visually stunning, and accessible.
What you'll do:
- Manage, mentor, and lead a team of Front End Engineers to meet deliverable commitments.
- Oversee the development efforts of the Front End Platform Team.
- Understand and practice agile software development and management.
- Design and build our Design Systems, Component Libraries, and front-end engineering tools.
- Develop and implement strategies to ensure WCAG 2.2 accessibility support across all applications.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging testing, meaningful code reviews, and collaboration.
- Collaborate with Product leaders to understand the product roadmap and plan initiatives for the Front End Platform Team, enabling Product Engineering to meet their commitments.
- Report on engineering activities concerning team velocity and the company's OKRs.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Advanced degree or professional certification is preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of software engineering management experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering software products.
- Expertise in front-end technologies and frameworks, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React and CSS
- Knowledge of SaaS operations and experience with modern technical SaaS tools and their integration.
- Eagerness to share ideas and learn from other team members.
- Manage the Core Web Vitals Metrics and provide proactive suggestions and data driven guidance to software engineers.
- Strong communication skills to clearly describe and discuss problems.
- Experience with designing and deploying applications in a cloud-based environment, preferably with AWS.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Experience working with distributed systems, integrating APIs, and writing scripts to automate tasks.
- Proficiency in Git, APIs, popular front-end frameworks, and agile methodologies.
- Managing performance metrics.
Benefits:
- Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
- HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
- 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
- Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
- Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
- Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
- 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
