Software Engineering Manager (Hands-On, Frontend)

The role

You will spend about 80% of your time writing and shipping frontend code with React, TypeScript and JavaScript. The other 20% goes to coaching engineers, running 1:1s and supporting their development. The role is designed for senior engineers who want to stay hands-on.

What you will do

• Write, review, refactor and ship production code regularly using React, TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Design and build user interfaces for interacting with large datasets, including filtering, visualisation and complex configuration.
• Take ownership of features from technical design through implementation, testing and deployment.
• Solve problems involving frontend performance, scalability, state management and user experience.
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, debugging and architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Tech Leads and Software Engineers.
• Contribute to AI-powered product experiences.
• Coach and mentor engineers, sharing technical knowledge.
• Hold regular 1:1 meetings with direct reports on progress, challenges and career development.
• Provide constructive feedback and support individual development plans and performance reviews.

Required qualifications

• Substantial professional software engineering experience at a strong Senior Engineer level.
• Hands-on with production code, with coding as the majority of the working week.
• Strong frontend development experience with React, TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Experience building complex, scalable applications, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, analytics or data-intensive environments.
• Experience coaching, mentoring or supporting other engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical discussions or structured feedback.
• Interest in taking ownership of 1:1s, career development and people-management responsibilities, or experience doing so.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Previous formal people-management experience.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Background checks are part of the hiring process, done lawfully before employment contracts are signed, with candidate consent.
• The interview process includes a technical screen with a 15-minute refactoring exercise, a live coding interview, a system design discussion and a final interview with the Engineering Manager Lead. AI

About the company

Pigment is an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform founded in 2019. The company passed $100M in ARR in 2026 and has more than 700 employees.