Engineering Manager - Frontend (France)

The role

You will lead a team of up to six frontend engineers, coaching them every two weeks and building their career development plans. You will also contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance frontend user interfaces.

What you will do

• Coach up to six direct reports, usually every two weeks.
• Define expectations, collect and deliver feedback, and build career development plans using the skill leveling matrix.
• Take part in performance decisions with other managers, including proposing and calibrating salary raises and handling under-performance remediation.
• Design and implement high-performance, scalable, responsive user interfaces.
• Optimize frontend performance for smooth user experiences.
• Address real-time challenges, including concurrent editing resilient to network disruptions, using a single source of truth and efficient caching.
• Translate functional requirements into simple designs and deliver high-quality code.
• Understand product and customer needs and suggest ideas that deliver value to end users.
• Optional: lead ad hoc projects such as technical demos, All Hands meetings, or evolving the skill leveling matrix.

Required qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer on a product in production, evaluated at a senior level (usually 7-8 years).
• At least 2-3 years of people management experience.
• Proven experience with frontend technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, React, Vue, and Angular (among others).
• Great team spirit, a problem-solving attitude, and a user experience focus.
• A good dose of humility and willingness to grow.
• Fluent English (French is not a must).

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Equity.
• Health insurance with Alan Blue, entirely free for you and your family.
• Trust and flexible working hours.
• Remote-friendly environment.
• New offices in Paris, London, New York and Toronto.

Before you apply

• Background checks are part of the hiring process, carried out lawfully before contracts are signed, with candidate consent, where permitted by law.

About the company

Pigment is an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform founded in 2019, with 700+ employees across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin. It was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software two years running.