About the role
dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.
Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world's most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.
dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.
About Us
dunnhumby helping retailers and brands deliver better experiences through Customer First strategies.
We are seeking a talented Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in developing products that are operating on the dunnhumby strategic area of Price and Promotion and building products the retailer can use to find the optimal product pricing and promotion strategies.
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager, you will drive our projects' technical direction and innovation. Your expertise in software architecture, cloud development, and DevOps best practices will be instrumental in ensuring designing and delivering high-quality software solutions. You will be responsible for leading a team, mentoring engineers, contributing to system architecture, and ensuring adherence to engineering best practices. Your technical expertise, leadership skills, and ability to drive results will be key to the success of our products.
What you will be doing?
Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering growth and development.
Collaborate closely with backend engineers, product teams, UX designers, and platform engineers to ensure our applications are scalable, resilient, and user-friendly.
Define and establish front-end engineering best practices, including architecture, performance optimization, and maintainability.
Design and implement scalable, modular component architectures using ReactJS and optimize UI performance.
Design API interactions that balance efficiency and security, without overloading the front-end
CI/CD & Deployment: Improve build pipelines, automated deployments, and observability using GitLab, Argo CD and Octopus Deploy.
Conduct regular performance reviews and provide actionable feedback.
Ensure adherence to compliance, security, and quality standards.
Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Provide technical support to users, address their queries, and ensure prompt issue resolution. Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents outside regular working hours.
Coach, train, and encourage the junior teammates
What you need to succeed?
Front-end development experience with ReactJS/Angular, TypeScript, and JavaScript (ES6+), Design patterns and modern UI frameworks.
Experience with C# and .NET Core, with a deep understanding of RESTful APIs.
Experience with Micro Frontends architecture and component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Material UI).
Deep understanding of front-end performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), Webpack Bundle Analyzer, and React Profiler.
Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs.
Strong knowledge of component-based architectures, and UI state management (Redux, React Query, etc.).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library), and deployment automation (GitLab, Octopus Deploy).
Experience working in cloud-based SaaS environments.
Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including back-end engineers, UX designers, and product managers.
Experience with styled-components and Emotion in ReactJS for modular and scoped CSS-in-JS, enabling efficient and dynamic styling.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach to ensure code reliability and quality in complex projects.
Proficiency with Webpack's advanced features like tree-shaking, lazy loading, code-splitting, and bundle optimization.
In-depth knowledge of Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Prettier, and other modern build tools and task runners for optimizing development workflows.
10+ years of experience and evidence of leading and managing a team of software engineers, fostering growth and development.
About the company
dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.
Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world's most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.
dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.
