Frontend Engineering Manager - Hands-On, 80% Coding

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pigment in London is seeking an Engineering Manager who loves coding as much as leading people. You will remain hands-on, contributing to frontend features while guiding a team responsible for building the AI-powered planning platform.

You will work primarily with React and TypeScript, mentoring engineers, running regular 1:1s and shaping the technical direction alongside product and design. Join a fast-growing SaaS company driving business planning at scale.

Qualifications

• Substantial professional software engineering experience.
• Experience mentoring/leading engineers.
• Strong frontend focus with React/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Remain an active contributor to production frontend codebase with other engineers.
• Write, review, refactor and ship production code using React, TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Design and build sophisticated user interfaces for large datasets and complex configurations.
• Take ownership of engineering tasks from design through testing and deployment.
• Solve frontend performance, scalability, state management and UX challenges.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Tech Leads and Engineers to deliver high-quality features.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Frontend architecture

Tools

Redux

Webpack

Job description

Pigment in London is seeking an Engineering Manager who loves coding as much as leading people. You will remain hands-on, contributing to frontend features while guiding a team responsible for building the AI-powered planning platform.

You will work primarily with React and TypeScript, mentoring engineers, running regular 1:1s and shaping the technical direction alongside product and design. Join a fast-growing SaaS company driving business planning at scale.