Engineering Manager - Front-end background (UK) at Pigment
- Company: Pigment
- Location: London
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: 2026-09-01
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: If you're curious about the kind of challenges our engineering team tackles, our culture, and our organization, we invite you to explore our Tech Blog ! - 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 βseniorβ 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 π Trust and flexible working hours Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London, New York, and, Toronto Remote-friendly environment Find more English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow
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