Swan is building the future of embedded banking in Europe. We empower companies to seamlessly integrate banking features into their products through our modern GraphQL API, pre-built front-end components, and comprehensive administration tools. As we scale to serve thousands of businesses and millions of end-users, we’re looking for exceptional engineering leaders who want to shape how companies build financial experiences.

✨ Your mission

As our Front-End Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a focused, high-impact team of 2 talented engineersworking on the visual face of Swan’s platform. Your team operates as a center of excellence across our 70+ engineering organization, partnering closely with product design to deliver interfaces that thousands of developers and millions of end-users interact with daily.This is a player-coach role where you’ll spend significant time hands-on with code while building and mentoring your team. You’ll have the opportunity to shape our front-end strategy from the ground up, establish engineering practices, and grow your team as Swan scales.

✨ Your responsibilities

Team Leadership (25%)

• Grow and mentor your engineers, providing coaching on both technical skills and career development

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Drive hiring as the team grows, building a diverse and exceptional front-end engineering team

• Conduct performance evaluations and create clear growth paths for your team members

• Balance individual contributor work with management responsibilities as a player-coach

Technical Leadership (30%)

• Make architectural decisions for front-end systems in our demanding technical environment with reactive architecture

• Partner with product managers to shape features and technical roadmaps

• Ensure engineering excellence by establishing and championing technical standards, automated testing, and code quality practices

• Review and approve system designs, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability liaising within senior technical community

• Monitor system performance to maintain quality of service as our platform scales

Delivery & Operations (20%)

• Own roadmap execution, providing clear visibility and progress tracking at scale

• Lead cross-team collaborations, ensuring effective communication among engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders

• Maintain operational excellence in production, including incident response and on-call participation

• Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and business impact

Hands-On Technical Work (25%)

• Contribute code regularly through reviews, feature development, and architectural implementations

• Debug production issues and guide the team through complex technical challenges

• Stay current with front-end technologies and bring new ideas to the team

✨ You’re a great match if:

Technical Excellence

• You have substantial experience as a software developer with deep expertise in front-end engineering, particularly in product-driven environments

• You’re highly skilled in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL—these are your daily tools

• You bring a strong UX/UI sensibility and care deeply about user experience

• You write clean, maintainable code and establish patterns that scale

• You stay current with modern front-end technologies and industry best practices

• You’ve worked in complex environments involving product, QA, security, and platform teams

Leadership & Management

• You have experience leading and mentoring engineers, whether as a formal manager or technical lead

• You excel at coaching team members on technical and professional growth

• You have strong communication skills and can align engineering goals with business priorities

• You know how to balance technical excellence with business pragmatism

• You’re comfortable with player-coach dynamics, contributing technically while developing your team

Passion for Building Products

• You’re passionate about building great products, demonstrated through open-source contributions, personal projects, or professional work in fintech, Banking as a Service, or regulatory tech

• You understand the business context behind technical decisions

• You think about developer experience as a product itself

• You have a professional level of English (Swan is an international team)

❤️ Our Ideal Teammate

• Empathetic: You understand your team, users, and stakeholders

• Skilled: You combine technical depth with growing leadership abilities

• Frank: You communicate directly and value honest feedback

• No ego: We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door

Bonus Points (Not Required)

• Experience with automated testing and continuous integration

• Interest in functional programming paradigms

• Familiarity with fintech, embedded banking, or regulatory technology

• Understanding of system architecture beyond front-end

• Experience with developer tools and platform engineering

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• Interview with our CTO

• System Design Interview

• Peer Interview with Product/Product Design