Web Engineering Manager — Work From Anywhere

The Economist; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Counselling services

Work From Anywhere program

Annual & parental leave

Volunteering days

Free Economist content access

Job summary

The Economist is seeking an Engineering Manager – Web to lead a team of web engineers and shape the future of economist.com. You’ll own health, delivery and growth of your team, staying close to code while guiding product direction.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Engineering – Web, you’ll collaborate with Product, Design and QA to deliver a fast, accessible experience for anonymous and subscribing users, with emphasis on mobile web and Core Web Vitals.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on web engineering background with modern tech stack.
• Experience leading web engineering teams and delivering high-traffic products.
• Strong collaboration with product, design and QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of web engineers, providing day‑to‑day management, clear expectations, regular feedback, mentorship and career development.
• Stay hands‑on: review code, contribute to architectural decisions, and step into implementation when it matters, working across React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript.
• Own delivery for your team: planning, sequencing work, managing dependencies and removing blockers in partnership with product management and the Head of Product & Engineering – Web.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA and backend teams to turn roadmap priorities into a technically sound plan, with clear ownership from discovery through release, operation and measurement.
• Get hands‑on with product and business requirements: ask questions, identify gaps and refine specifications before and during build. Make customer, commercial and technical trade‑offs explicit.
• Use product and business metrics, including registration and subscription conversion, engagement and retention, alongside web performance and reliability measures to inform priorities and evaluate outcomes.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, automated testing, accessibility, security and release practices. Build quality into the team’s everyday work, aligned with wider architectural and QA standards.
• Improve mobile web performance and Core Web Vitals, making sound decisions about rendering, caching and content delivery across devices and network conditions.
• Own the operational health of the services your team builds, including observability, incident response and follow‑up, technical debt and continuous improvement of reliability.
• Improve CI/CD, deployment safety, feature flagging and experimentation practices so the team can release frequently, learn from evidence and respond quickly to issues.
• Recruit, interview and onboard web engineers, raising the team’s technical capability and fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Represent your team in wider engineering discussions, contribute to web technical direction and resolve cross‑team dependencies without adding unnecessary hand‑offs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

React

Next.js

Node.js

TypeScript

Web performance

CI/CD

Collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

The Economist is seeking an Engineering Manager – Web to lead a team of web engineers and shape the future of economist.com. You’ll own health, delivery and growth of your team, staying close to code while guiding product direction.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Engineering – Web, you’ll collaborate with Product, Design and QA to deliver a fast, accessible experience for anonymous and subscribing users, with emphasis on mobile web and Core Web Vitals.