Frontend Platform Engineering Manager

Confidential Careers; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers seeks an Engineering Manager – Frontend Platform to lead architecture, delivery, and standards across multiple business areas. You will manage a frontend squad and drive high-quality, scalable frontend solutions.

Lead React.js/Next.js development, promote reusable components, and foster AI-assisted productivity while ensuring performance, security, and regulatory compliance. The role spans strategic direction and hands-on delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong frontend background.
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Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a dedicated Frontend Squad supporting multiple business-critical platforms.
• Manage frontend Tech Leads, senior frontend engineers, and frontend developers within the squad.
• Define clear frontend ownership, technical direction, coding standards, and delivery expectations.
• Partner with Product, UX/UI, QA, Cloud, Security, Backend Engineering, Delivery, and other Engineering Managers.
• Support hiring, technical interviews, onboarding, mentoring, and development of frontend talent.
• Own the frontend architecture strategy for the Frontend Platform area.
• Define and maintain frontend standards, reusable components, design patterns, and best practices.
• Guide teams in React.js, Next.js, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS, and related frontend technologies.
• Drive consistency across UI architecture, frontend performance, state management, API integration, and component design.
• Reduce duplicated frontend effort by promoting reusable solutions, shared libraries, and common standards.
• Own frontend delivery execution for the squad and ensure alignment with wider engineering priorities.
• Oversee frontend development for web applications, portals, dashboards, websites, internal tools, and client-facing interfaces.
• Drive delivery from technical planning through development, testing, release, and post-release monitoring.
• Identify and resolve frontend blockers, delivery risks, dependencies, technical gaps, and performance issues.
• Ensure strong engineering practices, including documentation, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and release readiness.
• Promote practical use of AI tools to improve frontend development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and delivery speed.
• Encourage frontend teams to adopt AI-assisted development practices responsibly.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work through automation, reusable assets, and AI-supported engineering workflows.

Skills

React.js

Next.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Node.js

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

CI/CD

Git

AI tools in dev

Tools

AWS

Azure

GraphQL tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Confidential Careers seeks an Engineering Manager – Frontend Platform to lead architecture, delivery, and standards across multiple business areas. You will manage a frontend squad and drive high-quality, scalable frontend solutions.

Lead React.js/Next.js development, promote reusable components, and foster AI-assisted productivity while ensuring performance, security, and regulatory compliance. The role spans strategic direction and hands-on delivery.