Engineering Manager - Front-End Background

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](https://engineering.pigment.com/)! \- 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 Find more [English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom](https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs) on Arbeitnow