Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK)

<div><span style="font-size: 24px;">The Opportunity</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt;">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%).</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>On the engineering part:</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>- Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and responsive user interfaces.</div> <div>- Optimize frontend performance to ensure smooth and efficient user experiences.</div> <div>- Tackle real-time challenges, enabling concurrent editing resilient to network disruptions, based on a single source of truth managed through efficient caching.</div> <div>- Translate functional requirements into elegant and simple designs, delivering high-quality code.</div> <div>- Understand and address the product and customer needs, suggesting innovative ideas to deliver maximum value to end users.</div> <div>- 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.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>On the people management part, here is what it entails:</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>- Coach up to six direct reports, providing guidance and support (usually every two weeks).</div> <div>- Define expectations, collect and deliver feedback, and build career development plans using our skill leveling matrix.</div> <div>- Participate in performance-related decisions with other managers, including proposing and calibrating salary raises and handling under-performance remediation.</div> <div>(Optional) Lead ad hoc projects to structure engineering efforts, such as organizing technical demos, leading - All Hands meetings, or evolving our skill leveling matrix.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>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.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Explore Our Tech Blog:</strong></div> <div>If you're curious about the kind of challenges our engineering team tackles, our culture, and our organization, we invite you to explore our <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://engineering.pigment.com/" class="postings-link">Tech Blog</a>!</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>- 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).</div> <div>- Experience in people management of at least 2-3 years.</div> <div>- Proven experience with front technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, React, Vue, and Angular (among others).</div> <div>- Great team spirit with a problem-solving attitude and user experience focus</div> <div>- A good dose of humility and the willingness to grow (no matter your seniority!).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>What you will get:</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Competitive salary</div> <div>Equity</div> <div>The best health insurance with Alan Blue is entirely free for you and your family 💙</div> <div>Trust and flexible working hours</div> <div>Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London, New York, and, Toronto</div> <div>Remote-friendly environment</div><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>