headway - Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform

• You've built your career in frontend. You were a senior or staff frontend engineer before you moved into management, and you have deep experience with React and the modern web. • You've led a frontend platform, design system, or web architecture team, ideally at a fast-growing company. • You've managed engineers for [3+] years. You've hired, grown senior engineers, and managed performance, including turning around or moving out someone below the bar. You don't need experience managing managers. • You use AI every day. You've shipped code with AI tools in the last six months, at work or in your own projects, and you have a view on how agents should build UI. • You have a clear point of view on what great frontend engineering looks like today, and you advocate for it with data. You can explain the value of platform work to product teams and to executives. • You work closely with Design. You understand how designers work, and you can turn design system decisions into engineering plans. • You've built alignment across several product teams with competing priorities, and kept a shared roadmap moving. • You like a fast pace. Most of your plans are measured in weeks or a few months. • OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS • After you apply to Headway, here are some details of what to expect during the interview process. • First rounds: You'll meet the hiring manager to go deeper into your team and people leadership experience, and you'll do a frontend AI coding interview. • Final rounds: You'll meet people across engineering, product, and design leadership. Expect behavioral interviews on people leadership and on partnership with Design, a product sense interview, and frontend technical interviews on system design [and technical depth]. • References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members! • We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview. • Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf • A notice to Headway applicants: To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that Headway only accepts applications through our official careers page at https://headway.co/careers. Headway will never refer you to external websites, ask for payment or personal information, or conduct interviews via messaging apps. All official communication will come from a @findheadway.com http://findheadway.com email address. If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from Headway via an unofficial channel, please do not share any information and report it as spam.