Engineering Manager - Front-End (UI/UX)

Role Overview

Engineering Manager - Front-End (UI/UX) at Bolt.new (StackBlitz). Hands-on technical leadership balancing coding, frontend architecture ownership, and people leadership. You’ll drive UI code quality and team growth while coordinating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership (UI architecture):
  • Own UI architecture: component patterns, state management, performance, and frontend infrastructure
  • Write code regularly on complex features, migrations, and architectural improvements
  • Review all UI PRs and maintain quality standards across the UI domain
  • Lead technical initiatives and manage technical debt
  • Coordinate with other Team Leads on cross-domain architectural decisions
• Team development:
  • Conduct performance reviews and own career development for UI team members
  • Run regular 1:1s to remove blockers and provide feedback
  • Make hiring decisions and address performance issues proactively
  • Support building an autonomous, high-performing team culture
• Coordination:
  • Assign team members to features based on skills, capacity, and priorities
  • Participate in coordination meetings with other Team Leads
  • Hold regular 1:1s with the Head of Engineering to align priorities/resources
  • Run weekly UI team meetings for knowledge sharing
• AI-native development:
  • Champion AI coding tools and effective model usage
  • Build AI-powered UI features and agent interaction patterns
  • Dogfood Bolt.new daily and drive product improvements

Requirements

• 10+ years frontend development
• 3+ years leadership experience
• Expert in React and TypeScript and modern frontend architecture
• Strong HTML/CSS (Tailwind) and performance optimization
• Experience with design systems, state management, and complex UI flows
• Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
• Daily user of AI coding assistants: Cursor, Copilot, Claude
• Experience building AI-integrated applications and interfaces
• Leadership experience: performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
• Ability to hire frontend engineers and support remote team culture

Nice to Have / Bonus Points

• Web Workers, Web Components, Remix, browser dev environments
• Developer tooling or design tools experience
• Design engineering background
• Open-source contributions to UI
• Strong UX sensibilities and pixel-perfect implementation from designs
• Experience with Figma/Sketch

Location / Work Setup

• United States (company described as globally distributed and fully remote).