Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MSQ DX is a full-service experience design and technology consultancy that delivers connected, optimized digital solutions for enterprise clients. The Front-End Development Manager leads front-end delivery across multiple client engagements, ensuring technical quality, estimation accuracy, engineering standards, and predictable execution. The role also manages hiring, mentoring, performance, and career development while partnering with cross-functional teams across the US and Brazil.
Responsibilities
- Own and report on practice KPIs through weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboards and readouts
- Lead front-end delivery across multiple concurrent client engagements, enforcing UI architecture standards for scalable and maintainable React and Next.js applications
- Perform code reviews and uphold engineering standards across the practice
- Establish and enforce performance budgets, including Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, and accessibility audits, with clear remediation plans
- Ensure responsive, cross-browser experiences that meet WCAG 2.2 Level A standards as a baseline, with the flexibility to support Level AA requirements when needed
- Drive adoption and maintenance of Storybook documentation, design tokens, and shared component libraries
- Champion AI-forward front-end development practices, including AI-assisted code generation, RAG-ready user interfaces, and telemetry-enhanced experiences
- Develop and communicate hiring plans, staffing needs, and team-scaling strategies
- Hire, onboard, and establish clear expectations for new team members, including documented onboarding plans and probationary reviews
- Hold regular 1:1 meetings, provide ongoing feedback, and support performance, growth, and career development
- Conduct performance reviews, address performance concerns promptly, and partner with HR when formal action is needed
- Manage key people-management responsibilities, including approvals, staffing awareness, performance planning, and compensation discussions
- Handle sensitive personnel matters responsibly, including escalation of concerns, employment transitions, offboarding, and knowledge transfer
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, peers, and company leadership
- Partner with the Front-End Staff Developer, Experience Design, Architecture, Back-End Development, Business Analysis, QA, and PMO teams to scope work, mitigate risk, and deliver predictable outcomes
- Support estimation and planning efforts for front-end initiatives, balancing technical quality with delivery timelines
- Identify and proactively address risks, blockers, and technical debt across projects and engagements
Skills
- 7+ years of professional front-end development experience, including 5+ years in a technical people-management role
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and Next.js
- Experience with modern React patterns, including complex state management, server components, routing, and data-fetching strategies
- Understanding of front-end architecture patterns and scalability considerations for enterprise client applications
- Knowledge of UI/UX principles, design systems, accessibility standards, and responsive design best practices
- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with experience coaching mid-level and senior engineers
- Ability to lead through influence by setting clear expectations, holding teams accountable, and providing direct, actionable feedback
- Comfort operating within a shared leadership model and partnering closely with a Staff Developer
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and balance leadership responsibilities with focused technical work
- High degree of ownership, accountability, and follow-through
- Coaching mindset with a genuine passion for developing others
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple geographies, including Latin America
- Experience in a digital agency or consultancy environment serving enterprise clients
- Experience with Contentstack, Optimizely, Sitecore XM Cloud, or other headless CMS and composable DXP platforms
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI-powered user interface patterns
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system as a product
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
- For US-based employees: health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- For US-based employees: a 401(k) plan that includes up to a 4% company match
- For US-based employees: self-managed personal time off
- For US-based employees: opportunities for ongoing learning, mentorship, and professional development
- For the Brazil team: access to growth and collaboration with our cross-cultural teams
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