Front End Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead initiatives aimed at providing value to our users by ensuring that the software delivered by your team is of high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.

• Assist the team in navigating trade-offs and fostering alignment in a fast-paced environment, balancing rapid delivery with thoughtful, long-term strategies across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.

• Articulate your team’s objectives, the scope and risks associated with your projects, and take ownership of delivering initiatives within established timelines.

• Identify, develop, and refine engineering processes that promote a high-performing team.

• Regularly engage in one-on-one discussions with your team to address both technical tasks and professional growth; provide direct and constructive feedback regarding their individual performances.

• Ensure that developers receive adequate support and empowerment throughout the development lifecycle.

• Foster an inclusive environment that engages and challenges your team members.

• Collaborate effectively with various teams, including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience leading engineers in a software development setting and collaborating across multiple distributed teams.

• A software engineering background that enables you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers of all experience levels to triage, prioritize, and implement solutions.

• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects.

• Prior involvement in frontend platform initiatives, such as design systems and frontend architectural enhancements.

• A history of delivering front-end experiences for user-facing products.

• Practical experience with web technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.

• A successful track record of leading and delivering complex user-facing experiences on schedule while using data to inform timelines.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to cultivate positive relationships with others, regardless of their position or role.

• A passion for problem-solving, risk management, leading change, and facilitating collaborative decision-making.

• Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.

• A desire to grow and learn as a manager, to develop others, and to achieve results through teamwork rather than solely relying on personal technical skills.

• Capable of hiring, mentoring, empowering, developing, and delegating to geographically distributed team members with diverse skill sets.

• A commitment to our core values: embracing differences, being relationship-oriented, practicing responsible participation, and demonstrating grit.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive performance-based bonus plans for all eligible employees, as we share in our collective success as one team.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting, regardless of your own contributions.

• Quarterly all-company wellness days for everyone to take a collective pause.

• Country-specific holidays plus an additional day off for your birthday.

• One-time home office stipend.

• Annual budget for professional development.

• Quarterly well-being stipend.

• Substantial paid parental leave.

• Employee referral bonus program.

• Additional benefits (life/AD&D insurance, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country).