Engineering Manager (Front-end)

Description

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager with a strong background in modern frontend engineering , particularly React, Next.js, and TypeScript , to provide technical leadership and operate with excellence. Creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams—designing, building, releasing, and maintaining high-quality digital products.

You will play a key role in shaping and growing a best-in-class frontend engineering capability , establishing modern development practices and building scalable, high-performance web applications.

This is an initial 6-month contract (outside IR35) requiring 3 days per week onsite in Paddington, London .

Requirements

Key Accountabilities

Team Leadership

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of frontend engineers specialising in React, Next.js, and TypeScript .
• Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Encourage strong engineering practices such as code reviews, testing, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure effective allocation of people, resources, and workload across projects.

Agile Delivery

• Oversee the planning, development, and delivery of modern web applications and frontend platforms aligned with product and business objectives.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and programme teams to deliver intuitive, performant user experiences.
• Monitor project progress, dependencies, and risks, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.

Technical Leadership

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across React and Next.js applications , helping teams build scalable and maintainable frontend architectures.
• Promote best practices including component-driven development, SSR/SSG patterns, performance optimisation, and TypeScript-first development .
• Guide engineering teams on frontend architecture, state management, API integration, and modern web performance strategies .
• Evaluate and introduce tools and frameworks that improve developer experience, product quality, and delivery efficiency.
• Work with senior engineers to shape the frontend technical roadmap , aligning it with product and commercial priorities.

Quality & Platform Ownership

• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, performance, accessibility, and user experience .
• Ensure frontend applications meet performance, reliability, and usability standards across devices and browsers.
• Promote a DevOps mindset where teams take ownership of their applications from development through deployment and monitoring.

Skills & Experience

• Previous hands-on senior software engineer , ideally with strong experience in React, Next.js, and TypeScript .
• Proven experience building large-scale, high-performance web applications .
• Experience leading and mentoring highly skilled frontend engineering teams .
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, component design, performance optimisation, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems .
• Experience working in Agile product-focused teams delivering user-centric digital products.
• Excellent knowledge of system design, cloud-hosted web platforms, and modern engineering practices .
• Strong advocate of DevOps principles – “you build it, you run it.”

Technology Environment

• Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Angular
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, Kubernetes
• Observability: Dynatrace
• Data & Caching: SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, Ignite
• Backend Services: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Micronaut