Engineering Manager (m/f/x) Frontend Platform

We at sevDesk
As an intuitive cloud accounting software, we empower founders, self-employed individuals, and small business owners to focus on what truly matters. Our product offers them a smart accounting tool to save time in their daily activities. As a company, we aim for excellence, continuously expand our horizons, and strive for daily improvement of our product and our daily work life. In pursuit of these goals, we rely on our strong culture, innovative spirit, and unwavering passion. In the future, we hope to count you among our dedicated team members.

Your mission

You are passionate about leading both people and technology. As a professional engineering leader, you inspire your team to grow, succeed, and deliver excellence. You take pride in developing your team of Frontend engineers while continuously improving the central Frontend platform and component library that power the company’s solutions. For you, the success of your team, the quality of their work, and their professional growth are equally important.

Here's how you'll make an impact:

• You lead a team of motivated Frontend engineers responsible for the central Frontend platform and component library, empowering them to continually improve their skills, processes, and the quality of their work.

• You foster a self-organized, collaborative team, aligning their strengths to achieve technical excellence and organizational goals.

• You closely collaborate with stakeholders, including product and development teams, to ensure the Frontend platform and component library are well-adopted and meet the company’s evolving needs.

• You promote best practices, including maintaining coding standards, creating efficient CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high performance, scalability, and observability across all platform components.

• You define and advocate for a clear, long-term platform vision, balancing immediate needs with scalable, future-proof solutions.

• You promote clear, actionable documentation to help teams successfully adopt and contribute to the platform.

• You lead by example as a mentor and empower your team to grow professionally and personally, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and shared success.
  

Your Qualification:

• You have at least three years of experience managing a software engineering team, along with several years of hands-on Frontend development experience (preferably with React).

• You have a deep understanding of modern Frontend development, including design systems, scalable component architecture, accessibility, performance optimization, and observability.

• You are familiar with modern Frontend tooling such as Nx, webpack/rspack Module Federation, TypeScript, and related technologies, enabling you to support and guide complex architectural decisions.

• You bring a strategic mindset, with the ability to set and communicate a long-term vision for the platform while balancing short-term priorities such as bug fixes and feature delivery.

• Experience with large-scale Frontend migration projects is a strong advantage.

• You thrive as a servant leader, empowering your team to grow and succeed while providing technical guidance and fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive environment.

• You have excellent communication skills in English, enabling you to align stakeholders, advocate for the platform’s vision, and bridge technical and non-technical discussions.

• You are a proactive problem-solver, emphasizing blameless post-mortems, continuous improvement, and knowledge-sharing to build a resilient, high-performing team.

Our TechStack:
Frontend: React | Angular.js (Legacy) | JavaScript/TypeScript | Nx | webpack/rspack Module Federation
Infrastructure: Docker | K8s | GitHub | SQL | AWS | Terraform
Backend: Kotlin | Spring Boot