UI Engineering Manager

UI ENGINEERING MANAGER

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The UI Engineering Manager is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the frontend architecture performance security and evolution of the Farnell eCommerce platform. This role combines deep expertise in modern Single Page Applications (SPAs) with people leadership architectural influence and crossfunctional collaboration.

The successful candidate will act as both a technical authority and engineering manager guiding the UI engineering teams while shaping the longterm frontend technology strategy. A key focus will be ensuring the Farnell website remains secure highly performant scalable and aligned with modern SPA architectural best practices.

Whats in it for you

Along with offering a competitive salary package we also offer:

• A supportive team environment where everyone really is working toward the same goal.
• A strong open-door policy within management
• An environment where you will be given the tools and opportunities to further your career
• Pension scheme (Matched up to 8%)
• Simply Health Medical Plan
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with option to buy additional holiday
• FREE Onsite Parking & FREE Onsite Gym
• Flexible hybrid working
• Cycle to work Scheme
• EV Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Discount and retailer reward schemes

What will you be doing

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Act as the technical authority for frontend engineering with expert knowledge of SPA architectures and .
• Own and evolve the frontend technology stack setting standards for frameworks libraries build pipelines and tooling.
• Guide architectural decisions to ensure the platform keeps pace with emerging frontend technologies patterns and industry best practices.
• Analyse existing UI codebases and architectural solutions identifying risks technical debt and opportunities for improvement.
• Produce clear technical recommendations designs and roadmaps to improve platform quality maintainability and delivery efficiency.

Performance Security & Quality

• Ensure the Farnell eCommerce website is secure resilient and performant at scale.
• Demonstrate deep expertise in:
  • Browser render paths and critical rendering optimisation
  • Core performance metrics including TTFB TTFP TTI and overall page responsiveness
  • Caching strategies and complexities inherent in SPAbased architectures
• Drive performance optimisation initiatives across rendering networking asset delivery and runtime behaviour.
• Embed performance and security considerations into development standards CI/CD pipelines and code review processes.

Engineering Methods & Delivery

• Define and continuously improve frontend engineering methods processes and ways of working.
• Promote best practices in code quality testability observability and maintainability.
• Partner with Product Platform and Architecture teams to ensure UI solutions align with wider business and technical strategy.
• Influence delivery planning and prioritisation with a strong focus on technical excellence and longterm sustainability.

People Management & Team Leadership

• Provide line management for the UI Developer teams including coaching mentoring performance management and career development.
• Create a culture of engineering ownership continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Support team members in developing modern frontend skills and strong engineering judgement.
• Encourage selflearning experimentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills capable of clearly articulating complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
• Work closely with Global Architects and senior technical stakeholders contributing to crossdomain architectural discussions.
• Produce concise highquality architectural documentation proposals and technical decision records.

What about you

Essential

• Significant handson experience building and evolving largescale SPAs in production environments.
• Expert knowledge of and including modern patterns tooling and ecosystem best practices.
• Deep understanding of browser internals render pipelines and performance tuning.
• Proven experience optimising SPA performance metrics such as TTFB TTFP and TTI.
• Strong grasp of SPA caching strategies including tradeoffs across client edge and server layers.
• Demonstrable experience analysing existing systems and successfully driving architectural and process improvements.
• Experience leading and managing frontend engineering teams.

Desirable

• Experience working on hightraffic customerfacing eCommerce platforms.
• Familiarity with microfrontend or modular frontend architectures.
• Experience collaborating in globally distributed engineering environments.

Personal Attributes

• Highly selfmotivated with a strong track record of continuous selflearning in frontend technologies.
• Pragmatic and analytical able to balance technical ambition with delivery realities.
• Confident technical leader who can challenge constructively and influence without authority.
• Strong sense of accountability for both technical outcomes and people development.

If you are interested in applying for this role then APPLY NOW.

Our Talent Team will review your application and if shortlisted you will be contacted with a view to an initial call.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills.

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