Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK)

The Opportunity

On the engineering part:

• Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and responsive user interfaces.
• Optimize frontend performance to ensure smooth and efficient user experiences.
• Tackle real-time challenges, enabling concurrent editing resilient to network disruptions, based on a single source of truth managed through efficient caching.
• Translate functional requirements into elegant and simple designs, delivering high-quality code.
• Understand and address the product and customer needs, suggesting innovative ideas to deliver maximum value to end users.
• We are also looking for engineers who understand the product and the customer's needs in detail and can suggest innovative ideas: in the end, it's all about delivering value to end users.

On the people management part, here is what it entails:

• Coach up to six direct reports, providing guidance and support (usually every two weeks).
• Define expectations, collect and deliver feedback, and build career development plans using our skill leveling matrix.
• Participate in performance-related decisions with other managers, including proposing and calibrating salary raises and handling under-performance remediation.
• (Optional) Lead ad hoc projects to structure engineering efforts, such as organizing technical demos, leading - All Hands meetings, or evolving our skill leveling matrix.

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If you're curious about the kind of challenges our engineering team tackles, our culture, and our organization, we invite you to explore our Tech Blog!

• Experience as a software engineer working on a product in production - for managers specifically, this experience must be evaluated during the interview process at a “senior” level (that is, usually from 7-8 years).
• Experience in people management of at least 2-3 years.
• Proven experience with front technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, React, Vue, and Angular (among others).
• Great team spirit with a problem-solving attitude and user experience focus
• A good dose of humility and the willingness to grow (no matter your seniority!).

What you will get:

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• The best health insurance with Alan Blue is entirely free for you and your family
• Trust and flexible working hours
• Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London, New York, and, Toronto
• Remote-friendly environment