Engineering Manager - Front-End (UI/UX)
StackBlitz
WorldwideremotePosted 15 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 10+ years frontend development plus 3+ years leadership
- Fully remote, globally distributed team
- Daily use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) required
- AI-native development focus — building AI-powered UI features and agent interaction patterns
- No college degree required
- No U.S. location requirement
Role overview
A hands-on technical leader at Bolt.new (by StackBlitz) — the company behind WebContainers and an AI-powered full-stack app builder used by over a million developers monthly. The role balances coding with leadership, owning frontend architecture, code quality, and team growth while spending significant time writing code, developing engineers, and coordinating across teams. This is part of a globally distributed, fully remote team of passionate engineers, designers, and creatives building the future of software development.
Responsibilities
- Own UI architecture: component patterns, state management, performance, and frontend infrastructure
- Write code regularly on complex features, migrations, and architectural improvements
- Review all UI PRs and maintain quality standards across the domain
- Drive technical initiatives and manage technical debt strategically
- Coordinate with other Team Leads on cross-domain architectural decisions
- Conduct performance reviews and own career development for UI team members
- Hold regular 1:1s to support growth, remove blockers, and provide feedback
- Make hiring decisions and address performance issues proactively
- Build a high-performing, autonomous team culture
- Assign team members across features based on skills, capacity, and priorities
- Participate in coordination meetings with other Team Leads
- Hold regular 1:1s with Head of Engineering to align on priorities and resources
- Run weekly UI team meetings for knowledge sharing
- Champion AI coding tools and model effective usage
- Build AI-powered UI features and agent interaction patterns
- Dogfood Bolt.new daily and drive product improvements
Requirements
- 10+ years frontend development experience
- 3+ years of leadership experience
- Expert in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture
- Strong HTML, CSS (Tailwind), and performance optimization
- Experience with design systems, state management, and complex UI flows
- Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
- Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
- Experience building AI-integrated applications and interfaces
- Experience with performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
- Experience growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels
- Experience hiring frontend engineers
- Experience building remote team culture
- Coaching mindset with balance of individual and business needs
- Strong UX sensibilities and eye for detail (spacing, typography, animations)
- Experience with Figma/Sketch and translating designs to pixel-perfect interfaces
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need
- Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes
- Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work
Nice to have
- Web Workers, Web Components, Remix, browser dev environments
- Developer tooling or design tools experience
- Design engineering background
- Open-source contributions to UI libraries
- WebAssembly or advanced browser APIs
Benefits
- Fully remote, globally distributed team
Additional details
- Company: Bolt.new by StackBlitz — creators of WebContainers (run Node.js in the browser, no installs/setup) and an AI-powered full-stack app builder comparable to Canva or Figma for full-stack applications
- Bolt.new enables creating, editing, and deploying web and mobile apps instantly in the browser
- WebContainers technology launched the company's journey in 2019 and powers the online IDE used by over a million developers every month
- No college degree required to apply
- No U.S. location requirement — remote-friendly globally
- Candidates do not need to meet every qualification listed above
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