Front-End Engineering Manager, AI-Powered Web Apps

Agoda; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Agoda is looking for a Front-End Engineering Manager to lead a high‑performing team building scalable, user‑facing web applications at global scale. You will mentor engineers and partner with product, design, data, and other engineering teams to deliver compelling experiences.

In this role you will shape frontend architecture, drive SSR, micro‑frontends, and API integration, and champion CI/CD, testing, and observability to ensure production‑ready features, including AI-powered enhancements,

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams building large-scale web applications.
• Strong hands-on front-end expertise in React, Angular or Vue.
• Proven knowledge of web performance optimization and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building scalable, reliable, and user-friendly web applications and product experiences.
• Drive front-end and full-stack solutions across core product areas, including selected AI-enabled features and workflows.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive and impactful customer or internal user experiences.
• Shape architecture across areas such as state management, SSR, micro-frontends, and API integration.
• Ensure new features, including AI-assisted capabilities where relevant, are performant, maintainable, observable, and production-ready.
• Guide the team in designing interfaces and workflows that surface recommendations, automation, or intelligent product enhancements in a usable and reliable way.
• Improve application quality through engineering best practices including code reviews, testing, experimentation, and continuous delivery.
• Support integration with backend services through REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and other service interfaces.
• Drive technical decisions around performance, reliability, monitoring, and maintainability in production.
• Mentor engineers and grow team capability in both modern web engineering and evolving product development practices.

Skills

React/Angular/Vue

JavaScript/TypeScript

Web performance optimization

REST/GraphQL/WebSockets

CI/CD & testing

Mentoring/leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture design

Job description

Agoda is looking for a Front-End Engineering Manager to lead a high‑performing team building scalable, user‑facing web applications at global scale. You will mentor engineers and partner with product, design, data, and other engineering teams to deliver compelling experiences.

In this role you will shape frontend architecture, drive SSR, micro‑frontends, and API integration, and champion CI/CD, testing, and observability to ensure production‑ready features, including AI-powered enhancements,