Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK)

Pigment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Brand new offices

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Pigment is seeking Senior Frontend Engineers who can also manage other engineers, up to 50% of their time. You will build high-performance, responsive UIs and optimize frontend performance in a collaborative product-led environment.

You will coach a small team, define expectations, and participate in people decisions. A hybrid remote-friendly setup with global offices is offered.

Qualifications

• 7–8 years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• 2–3 years in people management with coaching responsibility.
• Expertise in frontend technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS and modern frameworks.
• Strong UX focus and collaboration with product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance, responsive user interfaces.
• Own frontend performance optimization and scalability.
• Translate requirements into clear frontend designs and code.
• Coach and manage up to six direct reports, providing feedback.
• Lead ad hoc projects to structure engineering efforts.

Skills

Front-end development

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Vue

Angular

CSS

Leadership

People management

Product understanding

Job description

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:

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Experience

• 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