Engineering Manager - Frontend (UK)

<div><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Join Pigment: The AI Platform Redefining Business Planning</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team - from Finance to HR - to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Uber, Anthropic, Snowflake or Siemens, use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">With a team of 700+ across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo - all while working as one team. If you're driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.</span></div><div><br></div><p>You’ll join Pigment’s <strong>Reporting &amp; Collaboration community</strong>, working as a senior hands-on Frontend Engineer on some of the most complex parts of the product.</p> <p>This community is responsible for how users access, configure and interact with their data. That creates significant frontend challenges around large-scale datasets, filtering, visualisation, complex configuration and increasingly AI-powered experiences.</p><br><strong>On the engineering part:</strong><br> <li>Spend approximately <strong>80% of your time as a hands-on engineer</strong>, designing, building and shipping production features.</li> <li>Work on complex, data-heavy frontend problems where performance, usability and scale all matter.</li> <li>Build sophisticated interfaces for displaying, filtering and interacting with large datasets.</li> <li>Work with React, TypeScript and JavaScript, while contributing to the wider technical decisions behind the product.</li> <li>Partner closely with Product Managers, Product Designers and Engineers to take features from problem definition through to production.</li> <li>Make pragmatic engineering decisions based on the needs of the product and its users, rather than pursuing technical complexity for its own sake.</li> <li>Contribute to areas across Reporting &amp; Collaboration depending on business needs and your interests, including data extraction and filtering, visualisation, complex configuration and emerging AI experiences.</li> <li>Use modern engineering tooling, with Pigment teams working across GCP, CircleCI and AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.</li> <div> <p>This 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.</p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> </div><br><strong>On the people management part, here is what it entails:</strong><br><div> <p>At Pigment, <strong>people management and technical leadership are deliberately separated</strong>.</p> <p>Tech Leads lead the technical d