Job description
Job Summary:
Fluency is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow our front-end engineering team. In this role, you’ll assist the team in the development and delivery of intuitive, performant, and scalable user interfaces across our product portfolio. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering Leadership to align front-end development with strategic priorities, while mentoring and empowering engineers to do their best work.
We’re seeking a leader who is passionate about building modern web application experiences, fostering a high-performance team culture, and delivering value to users through clean, maintainable code. You’ll be instrumental in maintaining the health, productivity, and morale of your team and will play a key role in hiring, team structure, and process improvement.
Your Role:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of front-end engineers through regular coaching and performance feedback
- Optimize team structure and workflows to improve agility, collaboration, and quality
- Partner closely with Design and Product teams to bring UI/UX concepts to life with modern front-end practices
- Plan and execute projects with a focus on user experience, performance, and maintainability
- Champion front-end architecture, frameworks, and reusable components that scale across the platform
- Develop and execute technical roadmaps that align front-end architecture with business objectives and product strategy
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Identify and remove team impediments, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality features
- Contribute to hiring efforts, onboarding, and team development strategies
- Monitor and improve development processes, tools, and best practices
- Ensure delivery of accessible, responsive, and performant front-end applications
- Stay current with industry trends and front-end technologies, and guide adoption as appropriate
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong foundation in JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS
- 3+ years of experience managing and scaling high-performing front-end engineering teams
- Experience delivering modern web applications with a strong focus on UI/UX and performance
- A strong leader who leans on their leadership skills but can dive into technical discussions when needed
- Experience developing and communicating technical roadmaps to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders
- Experience collaborating with Design and Product teams in agile, iterative environments
- A track record of hiring and developing top-tier engineering talent
- Passion for code quality, testing, accessibility, and performance optimization
- Familiarity with front-end build tools, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines
- Strong communication skills and ability to present technical challenges and business impact to stakeholders
- Experience in the advertising industry or ad tech platforms is a plus
- A love of feedback, growth, and a belief in iterative development
Fluency is headquartered in Vermont. This position is remote US based. If local, you have the option to go into the office.
Fluency provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
