We are seeking a highly experienced Front-End Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and scale our front-end engineering team. This role requires deep technical expertise in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, and modern front-end architecture. The ideal candidate has a proven track record building high-performance, scalable, low-latency UI applications within fast-growing B2B SaaS environments.
You will drive engineering excellence, establish best practices, evolve our design system/UI component library, and collaborate closely with Product, Backend, and DevOps teams to deliver world-class user experiences.
Roles & Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing front-end engineering team.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance evaluations, and individual development plans.
- Establish engineering best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and architecture.
- Drive sprint planning, estimation, technical scoping, and delivery accountability.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Technical Execution
- Architect, design, and review front-end solutions that are scalable, modular, secure, and low-latency.
- Oversee development of reusable UI components, design systems, and front-end frameworks.
- Ensure high standards for accessibility, performance optimization, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Collaborate with backend teams to define efficient API interfaces and data contracts.
- Make architectural decisions on React state management, caching strategies, bundling, code splitting, and micro-frontend approaches (if applicable).
Product & Delivery
- Partner closely with Product Managers & Designers to translate requirements into elegant, intuitive user experiences.
- Own end-to-end delivery of front-end features with predictability and high quality.
- Ensure proper instrumentation, analytics, and observability for front-end features.
- Proactively identify technical debt and lead modernization/refactoring initiatives.
Quality, Security & Compliance
- Implement automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E) to ensure reliability.
- Ensure front-end applications follow secure coding standards and compliance guidelines.
- Drive performance audits and implement improvements to achieve sub-second load times where possible.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 8+ years of professional front-end development experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership/manager role.
- Expert-level proficiency in:
- React (Hooks, Context, Redux/Zustand/Recoil or similar)
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS & modern CSS architecture
- Node.js (front-end tooling, SSR, build pipelines, etc.)
- Strong experience working in B2B SaaS products with complex workflows and high scale.
- Proven ability to build high-performance, low-latency, scalable front-end systems.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD, code quality frameworks, bundlers (Vite/Webpack), and testing tools (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright).
- Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions and own front-end technical strategy.
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with design systems, Storybook, or component libraries.
- Familiarity with micro-frontends, module federation, or large-scale app decomposition.
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containerization, and API performance optimization.
- Prior experience integrating with analytics platforms, feature flag systems, or A/B testing frameworks.
- Understanding of WebSockets, real-time interfaces, and state synchronization at scale.
What We Are Looking For
- A hands-on leader who can review PRs, guide architecture, and unblock engineers when needed.
- A strong communicator who collaborates across product, design, and backend engineering.
- Someone who cares deeply about user experience, performance, reliability, and clean code.
- A builder mentality someone excited to create foundational systems, iterate rapidly, and scale.
