Front-End Development Manager

Job Summary

At WebstaurantStore, we help businesses thrive. We're seeking a Manager to lead a team of developers responsible for building and improving our React Native mobile app experience for iOS and Android customers. The role involves supporting growth and development, creating clarity around priorities and expectations, improving how work gets delivered, and ensuring high-quality experiences that solve real customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of developers through feedback, mentorship, career development, and performance management.

• Create clarity around priorities, ownership, expectations, and goals.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus.

• Support hiring, onboarding, and team development efforts.

• Support planning and delivery across new features, bug fixes, technical improvements, and platform initiatives.

• Help the team work through technical challenges, tradeoffs, and changing priorities while removing obstacles and identifying risks early.

• Ensure work meets expectations for quality, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and customer experience.

• Help improve development practices, standards, and ways of working across the team.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Accessibility, and Engineering to solve problems and deliver better outcomes.

• Communicate progress, risks, and priorities to stakeholders and help keep work moving forward.

• Contribute to discussions about product direction, technical investments, and opportunities to improve customer experience.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed while sitting/standing and interfacing with a personal computer.

• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.

• Requires the regular use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.

• Requires occasional bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching.

• Requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull medium weights, up to 50lbs.

Remote Work Qualifications

• Access to a reliable and secure high-speed internet connection.

• Cable or fiber internet connections (at least 75mbps download/10mbps upload) are preferred, as satellite connections often cannot support the technologies used to perform day-to-day tasks.

• A dedicated home office space that is noise- and distraction-free.

• The space should have strong wireless connection or a wired Ethernet connection (wired connection is preferred, if possible).

• A valid, physical address (apartment, suite, etc.).

• The desire and ability to work and communicate with other team members via chat, webcam, etc.

• Legal residents of one of the following states: (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, or WY).

• H-1B Visa Sponsorship Not Available, W2 only.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in mobile development, front-end development, or related technical roles.

• Significant experience leading teams working in React Native environments.

• 3+ years of experience leading, managing, and developing engineers, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career growth.

• Experience supporting project delivery and coordinating work across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, accessibility, performance, sing, maintainability, and user experience.

• Familiarity with component-based development, state management, API integration, release management, and iOS/Android platform considerations.

• Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, Accessibility, and Engineering throughout the product development process.

Education

This role does not require a degree. We value relevant skills and experience and alignment with our core values above all else.

Desired Traits & Skills

• Strong people leader who invests in growth, development, and team success.

• Excellent communicator who creates clarity and alignment across technical and business partners.

• Balances technical quality, customer needs, and practical delivery.

• Buils trust through accountability, follow-through, and consistent support for the team.

• Passionate about improving both customer experience and how work gets done.

• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.