Front-End Engineering Manager H/F Swan

Swan is building the future of embedded banking in Europe. We empower companies to seamlessly integrate banking features into their products through our modern GraphQL API, pre-built front-end components, and comprehensive administration tools. As we scale to serve thousands of businesses and millions of end-users, we're looking for exceptional engineering leaders who want to shape how companies build financial experiences.

Your mission

As our Front-End Engineering Manager, you'll lead a focused, high-impact team of 2 talented engineersworking on the visual face of Swan's platform. Your team operates as a center of excellence across our 70+ engineering organization, partnering closely with product design to deliver interfaces that thousands of developers and millions of end-users interact with daily.This is a player-coach role where you'll spend significant time hands-on with code while building and mentoring your team. You'll have the opportunity to shape our front-end strategy from the ground up, establish engineering practices, and grow your team as Swan scales.

Your responsibilities

Team Leadership (25%)

- Grow and mentoryour engineers, providing coaching on both technical skills and career development
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Drive hiring as the team grows, building a diverse and exceptional front-end engineering team
- Conduct performance evaluationsand create clear growth paths for your team members
- Balance individual contributor work with management responsibilities as aplayer-coach

Technical Leadership (30%)

- Make architectural decisionsfor front-end systems in our demanding technical environment with reactive architecture
- Partner with product managersto shape features and technical roadmaps
- Ensure engineering excellenceby establishing and championing technical standards, automated testing, and code quality practices
- Review and approve system designs, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability liaising within senior technical community
- Monitor system performanceto maintain quality of service as our platform scales

Delivery & Operations (20%)

- Own roadmap execution, providing clear visibility and progress tracking at scale
- Lead cross-team collaborations, ensuring effective communication among engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders
- Maintain operational excellencein production, including incident response and on-call participation
- Make pragmatic trade-offsbetween speed, quality, and business impact

Hands-On Technical Work (25%)

- Contribute code regularlythrough reviews, feature development, and architectural implementations
- Debug production issuesand guide the team through complex technical challenges
- Stay current with front-end technologiesand bring new ideas to the team