Engineering Manager - Frontend

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.

 

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

 

dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.

About Us

dunnhumby helping retailers and brands deliver better experiences through Customer First strategies.

We are seeking a talented Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in developing products that are operating on the dunnhumby strategic area of Price and Promotion and building products the retailer can use to find the optimal product pricing and promotion strategies.

Role Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you will drive our projects' technical direction and innovation. Your expertise in software architecture, cloud development, and DevOps best practices will be instrumental in ensuring designing and delivering high-quality software solutions. You will be responsible for leading a team, mentoring engineers, contributing to system architecture, and ensuring adherence to engineering best practices. Your technical expertise, leadership skills, and ability to drive results will be key to the success of our products.

What you will be doing?

Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering growth and development.

Collaborate closely with backend engineers, product teams, UX designers, and platform engineers to ensure our applications are scalable, resilient, and user-friendly.

Define and establish front-end engineering best practices, including architecture, performance optimization, and maintainability.

Design and implement scalable, modular component architectures using ReactJS and optimize UI performance.

Design API interactions that balance efficiency and security, without overloading the front-end

CI/CD & Deployment: Improve build pipelines, automated deployments, and observability using GitLab, Argo CD and Octopus Deploy.

Conduct regular performance reviews and provide actionable feedback.

Ensure adherence to compliance, security, and quality standards.

Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.  

Provide technical support to users, address their queries, and ensure prompt issue resolution. Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents outside regular working hours.

Coach, train, and encourage the junior teammates

What you need to succeed?

  • Front-end development experience with ReactJS/Angular, TypeScript, and JavaScript (ES6+), Design patterns and modern UI frameworks.
  • Experience with C# and .NET Core, with a deep understanding of RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with Micro Frontends architecture and component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Material UI).
  • Deep understanding of front-end performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), Webpack Bundle Analyzer, and React Profiler.
  • Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs.
  • Strong knowledge of component-based architectures, and UI state management (Redux, React Query, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library), and deployment automation (GitLab, Octopus Deploy).
  • Experience working in cloud-based SaaS environments.
  • Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including back-end engineers, UX designers, and product managers.
  • Experience with styled-components and Emotion in ReactJS for modular and scoped CSS-in-JS, enabling efficient and dynamic styling.
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach to ensure code reliability and quality in complex projects.
  • Proficiency with Webpack's advanced features like tree-shaking, lazy loading, code-splitting, and bundle optimization.
  • In-depth knowledge of Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Prettier, and other modern build tools and task runners for optimizing development workflows.
  • 10+ years of experience and evidence of leading and managing a team of software engineers, fostering growth and development.

 

 

 

What you can expect from us

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect.  Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.

And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One and dh Thrive as the living proof.  We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you. For an informal and confidential chat please contact [email protected] to discuss how we can meet your needs. 

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

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dunnhumby specializes in customer data science, providing retailers and brands with analytics and insights to enhance customer experiences and foster loyalty across various retail environments.

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