The Manager of Front End Engineering will lead the team responsible for building the platform and tooling for front-end web engineers to enhance their speed and efficiency. This role will focus on providing the necessary tools, processes, and infrastructure to support the product application engineering group, ensuring they can move swiftly with better predictability. Strong communication, analytical skills, and knowledge of best practices are essential for navigating the team through the challenges associated with the development of the front-end platform. You will work closely with product and design teams to ensure our platform is intuitive, visually stunning, and accessible.

What youll do:

Manage, mentor, and lead a team of Front End Engineers to meet deliverable commitments.
Oversee the development efforts of the Front End Platform Team.
Understand and practice agile software development and management.
Design and build our Design Systems, Component Libraries, and front-end engineering tools.
Develop and implement strategies to ensure WCAG 2.2 accessibility support across all applications.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging testing, meaningful code reviews, and collaboration.
Collaborate with Product leaders to understand the product roadmap and plan initiatives for the Front End Platform Team, enabling Product Engineering to meet their commitments.
Report on engineering activities concerning team velocity and the companys OKRs.

What youll bring:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Advanced degree or professional certification is preferred.
Minimum of 5 years of software engineering management experience.
Minimum of 7 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering software products.
Expertise in front-end technologies and frameworks, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React and CSS
Knowledge of SaaS operations and experience with modern technical SaaS tools and their integration.
Eagerness to share ideas and learn from other team members.
Manage the Core Web Vitals Metrics and provide proactive suggestions and data driven guidance to software engineers.
Strong communication skills to clearly describe and discuss problems.
Experience with designing and deploying applications in a cloud-based environment, preferably with AWS.
Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Experience working with distributed systems, integrating APIs, and writing scripts to automate tasks.
Proficiency in Git, APIs, popular front-end frameworks, and agile methodologies.
Managing performance metrics.

Benefits:

Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change.

Tier 1: $179,800 - $222,100

Tier 2: $161,800 - $199,900

Tier 3: $143,800 - $177,700

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.

Drata is on a mission to help build trust across the internet.

Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a companys security controls, while streamlining compliance workflows end-to-end to ensure audit readiness.

We all recognize the importance of earning and keeping the trust of our customers when it comes to protecting their data. Weve felt firsthand how burdensome achieving and maintaining a strong security and compliance posture can be at a fast-growing company. It’s a manual, redundant, error-prone, and unscalable process - and it only grows more complex and expensive over time.

Our team of SaaS, security, compliance, and audit experts have built a better way - with automation.

Employment at Drata is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.