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Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform

Full-time2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead a small senior team of five frontend engineers to own the vision for Headway's UI, setting strategy for the design system, web architecture, and agentic UI workflows.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform

Builds

Frontend applications, shared design system (Helix), web architecture, and AI-agent-driven UI generation

Domain

Healthtech / Mental healthcare / Web platform engineering

Required skills

Frontend engineering leadership, React expertise, Design system ownership, Web architecture strategy, AI tool usage for code generation, Team hiring and performance management, Cross-functional partnership with Design

Preferred skills

Experience leading frontend platform teams at fast-growing companies, Managing engineers for 3+ years, Building frontend guilds, Advocating for platform value to executives

Technologies

TypeScript, React, React Router 7, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Helix, Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry, GitHub, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, Eddy

Responsibilities

Hire and grow senior frontend engineers, Define and execute roadmap for design system and web architecture, Partner with Design to evolve Helix, Implement standards for accessibility, performance, and testing, Enable AI agents to build UI with confidence, Manage team priorities and headcount

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager