Engineering Manager-UI

Company Overview

CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of UI engineers, owning significant parts of CommerceIQ’s UI applications that require strategic design, architecture, and high-quality implementation.
• Lead the development of next-generation web applications, ensuring they are efficient, reusable, and focused on customer delight, while guiding the team on technical execution.
• Oversee the exploration and design of dynamic, compelling consumer experiences, setting standards for user interface quality and innovation.
• Guide the team in architecting, developing, and testing highly interactive front-end web applications and reusable components using modern web technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js).
• Identify, define, and communicate best practices for UI application architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap, emphasizing intuitive and high-quality UI solutions.
• Be a role model and professional coach for UI engineers, fostering a culture of action, innovation, and high standards in user experience and code quality.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack, ensuring seamless integration of UI components with backend systems.
• Manage teams to scale distributed UI applications, make architectural trade-offs applying appropriate design patterns, oversee code reviews, and ensure delivery with speed and quality.
• Ensure the team produces high-quality UI software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend developers to align UI solutions with business needs, prioritizing and executing based on company goals.
• Act as the custodian of UI development processes and SDLC best practices, ensuring the team adheres to high standards in debugging, performance optimization, and testing.
• Own hiring goals for the UI team, recruiting top talent to build a high-performing team.
• Take delivery and technical ownership of all UI-related roadmap and technical items, ensuring alignment with CommerceIQ’s innovation culture.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in a frontend stack (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) and modern web frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular, etc.).
• Proficient in statically typed languages (TypeScript) and principles of good user experience, ensuring intuitive and visually appealing interfaces.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, functional programming, and object-oriented JavaScript (OOJS).
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and CSS post-processors, with an ability to guide the team toward pixel-perfect implementations across major browsers.
• Experience overseeing debugging and web application performance optimization, ensuring high-performing UI components.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with at least 5+ years focused on UI design, architecture, and coding in JavaScript or equivalent frontend technologies.
• 3+ years of experience in architecting and delivering complex user interfaces, with a track record of guiding teams to ship scalable UI projects.
• 2+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized UI teams, demonstrating growth and successful deliveries.
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build exceptional UI engineering teams.
• Actively coached, mentored, and grew team members in their careers, fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Good understanding and experience in practicing SDLC best practices, particularly in UI development and agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building and working with production-grade UI systems.
• Shipped several large-scale UI projects with dependencies across multiple teams.
• Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships to enhance UI integration.
• Prior knowledge of ES6, Node.js, npm, and Webpack, with experience guiding teams in their use.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, Cypress, or Jest, ensuring robust testing practices.
• Been actively involved in the creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap for UI components.
• Strong believer in innovation culture and engineering-driven UI ideas, with a passion for elegant, reusable, and highly performant UI code.
• Experience in release management and agile methodologies for UI development.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.