Manager, Front-End Engineering

THE ROLE

The Manager, Front-End Engineering is a people-first leadership role for someone who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for developing high-performing teams. You’ll lead the web development team as the primary technical partner to the Website Product Owner. You own technical execution and team development; while the Product Owner leads customer experience strategy and roadmap prioritization. You’ll also work closely with a design team to ensure that web experiences are delivered on time.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead & Develop Your Team
• Invest in your people. Hold regular 1:1s, set clear individual goals, and provide coaching and constructive feedback that drives both team performance and each person's career growth.
• Build a world-class team. Establish standards for high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code. Create an environment where people are set up to do their best work and are consistently delivering against near-term team goals.
• Champion AI-enabled development. Actively identify, evaluate, and roll out AI tools in your own day-to-day work and actively encourage your team to experiment with them. Help build a team culture where experimentation is celebrated – from code generation and review to documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Be a mentor and coach. Understand each team member's strengths and career direction, and actively work to empower their growth through mentorship, stretch opportunities, and honest feedback.
• Drive Technical Excellence
• Be a full-stack technical authority. Have a strong understanding of front-end systems — including WordPress, React/Next.js, TypeScript, and Sanity CMS — with strong back-end foundations that allow you to make sound architectural decisions and evaluate work across the full stack.
• Lead by example. Plan projects, contribute code, and help set the technical bar for quality, performance, and maintainability across Jobber's web properties.
• Own the platform migration. Play an active technical leadership role in our ongoing migration from WordPress to a headless Sanity CMS. This includes managing and quality-gating the work of an external development agency, ensuring the migration is executed to a high standard.
• Build for scale. Establish engineering processes and documentation practices that enable the team to deliver reliably and reduce friction over time.
• Build Critical Cross-Functional Relationships
• Be a true technical partner. You will be the technical layer that makes execution reliable — translating priorities and outcomes into sound technical plans, providing accurate effort estimates, and flagging complexity, risk, or dependencies early so the Website Product Owner can plan accordingly.
• Bridge design and engineering. Build a tight working relationship with web designers to understand constraints, involve them early in technical decisions and make sure that implementation aligns with the design intent.
• Be the technical voice. Protect the team's capacity and technical health. Surface trade-offs clearly and proactively — if something is harder than it looks, or if technical debt is slowing delivery, you're the one who raises it and proposes a path forward.
• Collaborate across the organization. Work closely with Marketing, IT, and Product Engineering to support, provide guidance, and help execute on web initiatives across the business.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Technical Skills
• Proven front-end engineering experience with proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript
• Hands-on WordPress experience — theme and plugin architecture, custom development, and CMS content workflows
• Experience with Sanity CMS or a comparable headless CMS
• Experience building client-side and feature-flag experiments
• Strong back-end foundations and systems knowledge — enough to make sound architectural decisions and evaluate full-stack work
• Experience managing or directing external development agencies or vendors, including quality review and standards-setting
• Leadership & Management
• Demonstrated experience leading and growing an engineering team, with a track record of coaching engineers at different career stages
• Be a leader and mentor to your direct reports. Bring your own experience into conversations to influence, provide feedback and ensure individual goals are being met and exceeded.
• Enough project management fluency to be a strong partner to a dedicated PM — including providing reliable effort estimates, identifying technical dependencies, and flagging delivery risk early
• Experience introducing and scaling AI tooling within an engineering team — including tool evaluation, prompt engineering best practices, and responsible adoption
• Comfort leading in and helping others adapt to an agile environment
• Communication & Collaboration
• Strong communication skills and comfort translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and marketing leadership
• A collaborative, enabling mindset — you measure success by how well your team and its partners are able to do their work, not just by your own output

LOCATION

We believe great collaboration is intentional, and sometimes that means coming together in person to build, brainstorm, and connect. To support this, the role is open to candidates based in one of our hub cities: Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver, or Kitchener-Waterloo.

COMPENSATION

At Jobber, we believe that compensation should be transparent, fair, and reflective of your experience and growth. This role has a minimum annual salary of $151,200, a midpoint of $177,900, and a maximum salary of $204,500, designed to show the progression from learning the ropes to truly excelling.

We design our compensation to reflect each new hire’s skills, experience against the complexity of the role, ensuring a fair and competitive salary. Our range is intentionally broad to support growth and long-term impact, with fully established hires typically starting around the midpoint. The higher end of the range is reserved for those who have demonstrated deep expertise and lasting contributions, while offers below the midpoint reflect strong potential with room to develop. This approach ensures that compensation aligns with both an individual’s current capabilities and their opportunity for future growth.

Base salary is just one part of a total compensation package that will include equity rewards, annual stipends for health and wellness, retirement savings matching, and an extended health package with fully paid premiums for body and mind. Your professional growth matters to us too! You’ll have access to a dedicated talent development program that includes career coaching and opportunities for career development.

We believe in transparency and open conversations about compensation. If you have any questions about our approach, we’re happy to discuss them throughout the hiring process!

What you can expect from Jobber

• A total compensation package that includes an extended health benefits package with fully paid premiums for both body and mind, matching in RRSP, TFSA or FHSA, and stock options.
• A dedicated Talent Development team and access to coaching, learning, and leadership programs to help you grow your career, reach your goals, and unlock your full potential.
• A unique opportunity to build, grow, and leave your impact on a $400-billion industry that has no dominant player...yet.
• To work with a group of people who are humble, supportive, and give a sh*t about our customers.

We believe that diverse teams perform better and that fostering an inclusive work environment is a key part of growing a successful team. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.