Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK)

Pigment; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Health insurance for you and family

Flexible working hours

Brand new offices in Paris, London, NY

Remote-friendly environment

Résumé du poste

Pigment is hiring for a senior frontend engineering leader to design and implement high-performance interfaces across our product. You will tackle real-time collaboration challenges, optimize performance, and ensure a single source of truth through efficient caching.

A key part of the role is coaching up to six direct reports and shaping career development. You should have 7–8 years in software engineering with 2–3 years in people management, and strong experience with TypeScript, JavaScript,

Qualifications

• 7–8 years of software engineering experience.
• 2–3 years of people management experience.
• Proven frontend tech expertise: TS/JS/CSS and modern frameworks.
• Strong user-experience focus and problem-solving attitude.
• Willingness to grow and stay humble.

Responsabilités

• Design and implement high-performance frontend interfaces and ensure scalability and responsiveness.
• Optimize frontend performance for smooth user experiences.
• Address real-time collaboration challenges with a single source of truth and efficient caching.
• Translate requirements into clean, maintainable code and intuitive designs.
• Lead and coach up to six direct reports and participate in performance decisions.

Connaissances

TypeScript

JavaScript

CSS

React

Vue

Angular

Description du poste

The Opportunity

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.

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• 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