Front-end Engineering Manager

About

Swan is Europes embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts cards and payments directly into their products under their own processes over 1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companieslike Pennylane Indy Agicap Libeo and Lucca. Founded in 2019 the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar Accel Creandum Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices run payroll manage inventory and more. Theyre on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows theres still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow tracking payments or reconciling accounts happen outside the software across spreadsheets email threads banking portals.

Its a missed opportunity. Business software shouldnt just record financial activity it should run it.

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Swan 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 were looking for exceptional engineering leaders who want to shape how companies build financial experiences.

Your mission

As our Front-End Engineering Manager youll lead a focused high-impact team of 2 talented engineersworking on the visual face of Swans 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 is a player-coach role where youll spend significant time hands-on with code while building and mentoring your team. Youll 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

Youre 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
• Youre highly skilled in React TypeScript and GraphQLthese 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
• Youve 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
• Youre comfortable with player-coach dynamics contributing technically while developing your team

Passion for Building Products

• Youre 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

About Swan

Perks of being a Swanee:

• Our hybrid remote policy offers the best of both worlds: a great office setting and the flexibility to work remotely with at least 3 days each month in our Parisian office.
• Relocation package available (If you want to settle in Paris)
• Holidays : 25 days RTT
• Meal Vouchers: We provide a Swile card to cover your meals on work days.
• Transport: Monthly mobility package for accordance with the company agreement for sustainable mobilities you can now use your mobility package to pay for alternative commuting modes.
• Health insurance (mutuelle): Alan. This is Swans health and welfare insurance.
• Sports: Thanks to our partnership with Classpass and Gymlib you can enjoy advantageous discounts on subscriptions. They offer a wide range of sports activities as well as wellness activities.
• Well-being support: access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness.
• Offsite: Once a year we gather to reconnect deep-dive into big topics and relax.
• This isnt a perk it should be the rule but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. Were working hard to get better every day.

Our values:

Swans core values guide our actions daily. Individually they may seem obvious but together they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. If somethings convoluted or confusing we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game whether its to support our partners in their growth journey or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners expectations whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• CTO Interview
• System Design Interview
• Peer Interview with Product/Product Design