Posted 22 days ago

Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK)

LondonRemoteFull-time

AI Summary

Engineering Manager at Pigment splits time between managing up to six front-end engineers and contributing to product development. The role involves coaching, performance reviews, career development, and hands-on work designing scalable, responsive user interfaces with real-time collaboration features.

About this role

The Opportunity

We are looking for Senior software engineers with front-end expertise who can also be people managers of other software engineers, for a share of their time (up to 50%).

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.

In the Pigment engineering team, people managers do not have the responsibility of a particular technical domain, as this is the role of technical leads: this way, we make sure career decisions and technical choices are independent of one another.

Explore Our Tech Blog:

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