Frontend Team Lead (remote-friendly)

Qonto; Barcelona; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A financial technology company is seeking a Frontend Team Lead to oversee a team during a React migration project. The role involves managing team dynamics, delivering quality results, and collaborating across departments. Ideal candidates will have strong people management skills, React expertise, and a mindset focused on continuous improvement. Join us for a competitive salary, diverse workplace, and unique career development opportunities.

Servicios

Tailor-made and dynamic career track

Inclusive work environment

Competitive salary package

Meal vouchers

Health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Monthly team events

Formación

• Experience managing a team with a balance of hands-on work and leadership.
• Proven ability to deliver quality results on time.
• Strong experience with React and frontend JavaScript frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers, focusing on people management.
• Ensure successful transition during the React migration.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver quality features.

Conocimientos

People Management

React Expertise

Stakeholder Management

Continuous Improvement Mindset

Delivery Excellence

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Location: You can choose to work in a full-remote mode as long as you are living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia or Spain.

Your mission

Join us as a Frontend Team Lead and help drive the React migration while managing a high-performing team of frontend engineers in the Pricing domain. You will be part of a team of 80 Frontend engineers and managers shaping the financial app that will be used by one million SMEs by 2025.

As a Lead Frontend, your team will be composed of 5 Frontend Engineers working closely with Product, Backend and Mobile engineers within feature teams. You will join at an exciting time as we complete our React migration with an ambitious close deadline.

Responsibilities

• People Management: Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers, spending approximately 80% of your time on management activities and 20% on coding.
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation.
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1:1s and progress reviews.
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture.
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members.
• Technical Leadership & Delivery: Lead the React migration initiative with a challenging deadline, ensuring a smooth transition from Ember.js.
• Drive the delivery of your Frontend team to ensure quality is shipped on time on well-scoped projects to meet business objectives.
• Embrace and promote GenAI tools within your team to enhance productivity and development workflows.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Product, Backend, and Mobile teams within your cross-functional teams, focusing on complex monetization features.
• Establish and use engineering best practices to ensure high quality.
• Contribute to improving the Web team's operating system.
• Contribute to making the company shine by writing blog articles or speaking at events.

What you can expect

• Lean inspired methodology: Work with tools and practices that support continuous learning and the Qonto Way.
• Quality and continuous improvement: Cross-functional teams focus on one feature at a time with autonomy to improve the operating system.
• Emphasis on upfront technical designs, code reviews, and smart slicing to drive velocity with quality.
• AI-first approach: Champion GenAI tools within development workflows.
• React migration: Participate in a migration with an ambitious end-of-year target and significant technical impact.
• Complex monetization challenges: Collaborate across teams to deliver sophisticated monetization features.
• Diversity: The team values diversity with measurable representation in women and leadership roles.

Your future manager

You will report to Adrien Cadet, Head of Mobile & Web for the Systems & Monetization domain. Adrien brings deep expertise in leading technical teams and scaling engineering, supporting your growth as a leader while ensuring you have the autonomy and resources needed.

About you

• People Management Experience: You have meaningful experience as a team manager or in roles requiring people skills, balancing hands-on work with leadership.
• Delivery Excellence: Proven ability to drive delivery, balance speed with quality, and meet deadlines.
• React Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with React; at least four years in frontend JavaScript frameworks. Prior Ember experience is not required.
• AI Openness: Familiarity with or enthusiasm for GenAI tools and their application in software development.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent cross-team collaboration with Product, Backend, and Mobile teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset: Proactive in getting better and driving improvements within the team and organization.

We encourage you to apply regardless of specific boxes checked. Your unique background may be the missing piece we are looking for.

Perks

• Tailor-made and dynamic career track. Inclusive work environment and more to help you succeed.
• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade.
• Competitive salary package.
• Meal vouchers and public transportation reimbursement (part or global).
• Health insurance (country dependent).
• Employee well-being initiatives including access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness offers.
• Disability and Parenthood policy and childcare benefits with selected partners.
• Monthly team events.

Hiring process

• Interviews with Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers.
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a sense of working at Qonto.
• More information about the interview process on our careers website.
• Average process duration is 20 working days with offers usually following within 48 hours.

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