# Engineering Manager (Front-end)

**Company:** [Mindera](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/kAFiuZuCGfsouMaZWJDxvE.md)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract

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## Description

### 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