Engineering Manager, Client Platform - San Francisco, CA

About the role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to manage our Client Platform team. The team’s goals are threefold:

1. To deliver a fast, reliable, and secure user experience across all our apps

2. To enable all product feature teams to focus on their charter and execute on their roadmap autonomously and efficiently

3. To build rich native app functionality that helps expand engagement in Front

To be successful in this role, you will manage a senior team of talented engineers to deliver on an ambitious roadmap, lean in on technical design and implementation, scale the team by attracting and hiring talented engineers as well as coaching future engineering leaders, and obsess about making the teams and their processes scale efficiently. This is a very collaborative role where you will partner closely with product managers, analysts, designers, researchers, and engineering managers in San Francisco and other locations.

What you'll do:

• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design to innovate and execute product initiatives across the company
• Drive and deliver on our product roadmap, working with your teams to turn 1-pager specs into features
• Obsess about the architectural design, implementation, and quality of the work your teams produce
• Grow your teams by coaching developing engineers and by attracting and hiring top talent
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Front’s engineering management team

About you:

• Effectively recruited, mentored, and retained top talent
• Strong track record of running teams that deliver projects of significant complexity and high levels of ambiguity
• A strong product mindset and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego and high-growth environment; you work well with all kinds of personalities and with teams across multiple geographies
• Clear, structured thinking and excellent communication skills
• Industry experience building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applications
• Knowledgeable about modern web technologies and excited to learn new ones, e.g. React, ES6, Babel, Electron

What we offer:

✨ Competitive salary

🤝 Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)

🏥 Private health insurance fully covered by Front

💪 Flexible Fridays - learn more here!

🏡 Flexibility to work from home 3 days/week (unless posted as a full-remote role)

🛋 Mental health support with Modern Health

🍼 Family planning support with Maven