Front-end Engineering ManagerSwan 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 mentor your 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 evaluations and create clear growth paths for your team members
Balance individual contributor work with management responsibilities as a player-coach
Technical Leadership (30%)
Make architectural decisions for front-end systems in our demanding technical environment with reactive architecture
Partner with product managers to shape features and technical roadmaps
Ensure engineering excellence by 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 performance to 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 excellence in production, including incident response and on-call participation
Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and business impact
Hands-On Technical Work (25%)
Contribute code regularly through reviews, feature development, and architectural implementations
Debug production issues and guide the team through complex technical challenges
Stay current with front-end technologies and bring new ideas to the team
✨ You’re a great match if:
Technical Excellence
You have substantial experience as a software developer with deep expertise in front-end engineering, particularly in product-driven environments
You’re highly skilled in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL—these are your daily tools
You bring a strong UX/UI sensibility and care deeply about user experience
You write clean, maintainable code and establish patterns that scale
You stay current with modern front-end technologies and industry best practices
You’ve worked in complex environments involving product, QA, security, and platform teams
Leadership & Management
You have experience leading and mentoring engineers, whether as a formal manager or technical lead
You excel at coaching team members on technical and professional growth
You have strong communication skills and can align engineering goals with business priorities
You know how to balance technical excellence with business pragmatism
You’re comfortable with player-coach dynamics, contributing technically while developing your team
Passion for Building Products
You’re passionate about building great products, demonstrated through open-source contributions, personal projects, or professional work in fintech, Banking as a Service, or regulatory tech
You understand the business context behind technical decisions
You think about developer experience as a product itself
You have a professional level of English (Swan is an international team)
❤️ Our Ideal Teammate
Empathetic: You understand your team, users, and stakeholders
Skilled: You combine technical depth with growing leadership abilities
Frank: You communicate directly and value honest feedback
No ego: We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door
Bonus Points (Not Required)
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration
Interest in functional programming paradigms
Familiarity with fintech, embedded banking, or regulatory technology
Understanding of system architecture beyond front-end
Experience with developer tools and platform engineering