Engineering Manager

Role Overview

Engineering Manager (Remote from the Philippines), reporting to the Head of Engineering. You will lead and grow frontend engineering while owning technical strategy and improving developer productivity across the SDLC.

Responsibilities

Lead & Grow the Team

• Mentor frontend engineers across levels (drive hiring, run 1:1s)
• Build a diverse, high-performing team

Drive Technical Strategy

• Own frontend architecture and the tech radar for Next.js, React, TypeScript
• Lead design reviews
• Contribute to code/PRs when appropriate

Champion Developer Productivity

• Reduce SDLC friction and streamline workflows
• Design CI/CD pipelines and automate development workflows
• Integrate DX tooling using Turborepo/Nx
• Use DORA metrics to drive continuous improvement

Ensure Quality & Reliability

• Enforce best practices for:
  • Component design and state management
  • Accessibility
  • Testing practices
  • Incident management
• Operate effectively in a compliance-heavy environment

Partner Cross-Functionally

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and DevOps on:
  • Roadmaps
  • API contracts
  • Infrastructure
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• 7+ years software engineering experience
• 2–3+ years in engineering management or tech lead role
• Deep expertise in React (hooks, context, performance patterns, component architecture)
• Production experience with Next.js (App Router, SSR/SSG/ISR, API routes, middleware)
• Strong TypeScript skills (generics, utility types, strict-mode codebases)
• Demonstrated experience automating development workflows (CI/CD, code generation, testing infrastructure/release tooling)
• Frontend performance knowledge (Core Web Vitals, bundle optimization, lazy loading)
• Testing experience:
  • Unit tests with Jest
  • Integration/E2E with Playwright/Cypress

Nice to Haves

• Design systems and component library maintenance (Storybook)
• Edge computing patterns/platforms (AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers)
• DX or platform engineering background
• Observability tooling (Sentry or Datadog)
• Experience scaling frontend teams in high-growth startups/scale-ups