IT Engineering Manager - Frontend & Full-Stack

About the role

Ashley is a global leader in furniture manufacturing and retail. Our technology team drives digital transformation, developing cutting-edge e-commerce solutions serving millions of customers worldwide. We're building modern, scalable platforms that redefine the furniture shopping experience.

Position Overview

We're seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team (frontend, full-stack, QA) while remaining actively involved in technical delivery. This role balances strong technical expertise with proven leadership experience, requiring 20-30% hands-on coding alongside strategic team management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers (frontend, full-stack, QA)
• Build high-performing teams through hiring, onboarding, and professional development
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Manage team capacity, sprint planning, and resource allocation
• Foster collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence
• Actively contribute code to critical features (20-30% of time)
• Lead code reviews and provide technical guidance
• Design and architect scalable frontend and full-stack solutions
• Debug complex issues and prototype new technologies
• Drive technical decisions and proof-of-concepts
• Optimize SDLC for speed and quality
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Lead incident response and post-mortems
• Drive best practices in testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Define technical roadmap and architecture
• Make technology stack decisions
• Balance technical debt with feature delivery
• Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Analytics teams
• Distributed Team Management
• Lead geographically distributed teams across time zones
• Establish effective communication for remote/hybrid teams
• Build inclusive team culture regardless of location

Required Qualifications

• Leadership Experience: 3+ years managing engineering teams (frontend, full-stack, QA)
• Proven track record hiring, developing, and retaining talent
• Successful delivery of complex, multi-team projects
• Technical Experience: 8+ years as individual contributor in frontend/full-stack development space
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Modern frontend frameworks: Svelte/SvelteKit (required or willing to learn), React/Next.js (required)
• Full-stack development: Backend: Node.js, or C# RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
• Database design (SQL and NoSQL)
• E-Commerce & PWA: Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) experience: SFCC architecture and APIs (SCAPI, OCAPI), SFCC PWA Kit or headless commerce Business Manager configuration (preferred)
• Progressive Web App (PWA) expertise: Service Workers, offline functionality
• Core Web Vitals optimization (LCP, FID, CLS)
• Mobile-first development
• Performance optimization and Lighthouse
• Test automation (TDD, unit, integration, e2e)
• Agile/Scrum methodology expertise
• Analytics implementation experience (GA4, Amplitude, etc.)
• Performance optimization and security best practices
• Distributed team management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Headless/composable commerce architecture experience
• E-commerce platform experience (Shopify, Adobe Commerce, SAP)
• Micro-frontends or microservices experience
• CDN/edge computing knowledge (Fastly, Cloudflare)
• Mobile development (React Native, Flutter)
• Design systems and component libraries
• Accessibility standards (WCAG)
• PCI compliance and e-commerce security
• Open-source contributions