Interim Frontend Engineering Manager

Interim Frontend Engineering Manager

Our client is a Company with their headquarters in western Skåne. They are looking for an Interim Frontend Engineering Manager.

The Frontend Engineering Manager is responsible for leading and developing a team of approximately 20 employed front-end-oriented developers. The skills in the team are diverse and include, for example, developers such as iOS, Android, web developers, UX designers, CRM developers and more.

The team consists of employees from different parts of the world with different backgrounds and experiences.

The role ensures high quality in the form of skills and working methods for the developers with customer and user experience, quality and collaboration at the center.

You will report to the head of Software Engineering department and be part of its management team together with 3 other managers. You work closely with these teams and especially the sister team responsible for full-stack developers to ensure uniform working methods, effective workforce planning, and the right development for employees.

Managerial responsibility also includes responsibility for consultants who are needed to handle specific needs or to increase capacity in the teams.

Key responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, coach, and develop frontend developers

• Ensure a sustainable work environment with high psychological safety, motivation and commitment

• Responsible for recruitment, onboarding and team structuring

• Handle performance, goals, salary discussions and any labor law issues

Some Technical Management (together with senior developers and architects)

• Set the direction for frameworks and technical principles and collaborate with architecture management to develop and implement our frontend architecture

• Ensure quality, and performance in frontend developers

• Driving standardization, reusability (design systems, component libraries), and technical debt management

• Be a support or facilitator in major technical choices

Delivery & Collaboration

• Ensure efficient delivery in collaboration with, for example, product owners, full-stack developers’ platform and business

• Follow up on your team's capacity, flow, and deliverability

• Contribute to realistic planning and prioritization

• Manage dependencies and coordination with other teams and managers

Process & Improvement

• Establish and improve ways of working

• Drive continuous improvement based on data and feedback

Mandate

• Budget and Personnel Responsibility for about 20 front-end developers + consultants

• Decisions on the team's skills development, staffing and working methods

• Impact on technical roadmap and priorities in the frontend area

Expected skills and experience

Leadership

• Proven experience of leading larger teams (10+ people)

• 5 years of managerial experience, preferably in complex IT organizations

• Ability to combine empathetic leadership with clarity and requirements

• Used to lead through others (senior developers, and solution architects)

• Inclusive leadership built on our diversity

Technical understanding

• Strong background in frontend development (e.g. React, Vue, modern web platforms and CRM solutions)

• Good understanding of architecture, CI/CD, performance, security, and availability

• Sufficient technical level to challenge, prioritize, and make well-informed decisions (not necessarily hands-on)

• Preferably experience and knowledge in AI assisted development

• Experience from working with DevOps, Agile models such as SAFE, Scrum Kanban or equivalent.

Collaboration & communication

• Very good communication skills, both technically and business-related

• Experience of working cross-functionally in complex organizations

Success is measured by

• Engaged and high-performing employees

• Stable and predictable delivery

• High quality in user experience and technical solutions

• Continuous skills development and low unwanted staff turnover

Features

• Passion for Technology and People

• Combines curiosity and interest in learning new technologies and keeping up to date with new technologies in the field.

• Academic Education in computer science or similar.

Other

English is a requirement as the daily work is mainly in English.

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Krister Jonsson

P: +46 705093936

E: kj@nexttandmason.com