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That creates significant frontend challenges around large-scale datasets, filtering, visualisation, complex configuration and increasingly AI-powered experiences.\nOn the engineering part:\nSpend approximately 80% of your time as a hands-on engineer, designing, building and shipping production features.\nWork on complex, data-heavy frontend problems where performance, usability and scale all matter.\nBuild sophisticated interfaces for displaying, filtering and interacting with large datasets.\nWork with React, TypeScript and JavaScript, while contributing to the wider technical decisions behind the product.\nPartner closely with Product Managers, Product Designers and Engineers to take features from problem definition through to production.\nMake pragmatic engineering decisions based on the needs of the product and its users, rather than pursuing technical complexity for its own sake.\nContribute to areas across Reporting & Collaboration depending on business needs and your interests, including data extraction and filtering, visualisation, complex configuration and emerging AI experiences.\nUse modern engineering tooling, with Pigment teams working across GCP, CircleCI and AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.\nThis is not a traditional Engineering Manager role where you step away from the code. You will remain a senior individual contributor and be expected to ship.\nOn the people management part, here is what it entails:\nAt Pigment, people management and technical leadership are deliberately separated.\nTech Leads lead the technical direction of individual teams. Engineering Managers focus on developing engineers as people while remaining hands-on engineers themselves.\nSpend approximately 20% of your time on people management.\nGradually take on direct reports after establishing yourself as an IC during your probation period.\nCoach engineers across different teams within the Reporting & Collaboration community.\nSupport engineers with career progression, development, feedback and performance.\nRun regular 1:1s and help engineers understand what they need to do to progress.\nSet clear expectations and provide actionable feedback.\nHandle difficult performance conversations when necessary and follow through with clear development plans.\nPartner with Tech Leads to understand how your reports are performing technically without taking ownership of the Tech Lead's responsibilities.\nHelp create an environment where strong engineers can continue to develop while doing their best work.\nEngineering Managers typically support engineers across multiple teams within their community rather than \"owning\" a single engineering team.\nWho you are\nWe’re looking for someone who is both a strong senior Frontend Engineer and an experienced people manager.\nSignificant professional software-engineering experience, with the technical depth expected of a senior engineer.\nStrong recent hands-on frontend engineering experience.\nProduction experience with React, TypeScript and/or JavaScript.\nPrevious formal people-management experience. 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