Engineering Manager - Frontend (UK)

The role

You will work as a senior hands-on Frontend Engineer on complex, data-heavy parts of the Pigment product, spending about 80% of your time building and shipping features. You will also spend about 20% of your time on people management, coaching engineers across the Reporting & Collaboration community.

What you will do

• Design, build and ship production frontend features for data-heavy product areas
• Build interfaces for displaying, filtering and interacting with large datasets
• Work with React, TypeScript and JavaScript and contribute to technical decisions
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Designers and Engineers from problem definition to production
• Coach engineers across teams on career progression, development, feedback and performance
• Run regular 1:1s and set clear expectations with actionable feedback
• Handle difficult performance conversations and follow through with development plans
• Partner with Tech Leads on how reports are performing technically

Required qualifications

• Significant professional software-engineering experience with senior-level technical depth
• Strong recent hands-on frontend engineering experience
• Production experience with React, TypeScript and/or JavaScript
• Previous formal people-management experience
• Experience owning coaching, career development, feedback and performance management
• Experience building complex product interfaces, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise, analytics or data platforms
• Experience solving frontend problems involving large datasets, visualisation, filtering, configuration or performance
• A strong product mindset
• Strong collaboration skills across Engineering, Product and Design
• Ability and desire to remain deeply hands-on in the code while managing people
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience with ideally B2B SaaS or enterprise software, where the posting says 'ideally'

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Health insurance with Alan Blue, free for you and your family
• Trust and flexible working hours
• Brand new offices
• Remote-friendly environment

Before you apply

• Pigment conducts background checks, which may include employment history, education and, where legally permitted, criminal records, with candidate consent before contracts are signed

About the company

Pigment is an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform founded in 2019. The posting says it has 700+ employees and was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software two years running.