Senior Software Engineering Manager, Web Experiences (Frontend)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of frontend engineers to build and maintain customer-facing web experiences that are performant, accessible, and delightful.
• Set a clear technical vision and drive execution against high-quality outcomes that meet product goals and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, analytics, and other engineering teams to define priorities, scope work, and align roadmaps.
• Grow and support your team through coaching, mentorship, and career development; foster a healthy, inclusive team culture where engineers do their best work.
• Balance short-term delivery pressures with long-term technical investments in architecture, maintainability, and performance.
• Drive operational excellence by improving quality, site speed, monitoring, reliability, and team processes.
• Advocate for modern web development standards, and help evolve Wayfair's frontend architecture, including adoption of React Server Components, streaming, and modular design systems.
• Contribute to the broader engineering management community at Wayfair through hiring, onboarding, and cross-team initiatives.
• Champion the use of metrics and analytics to inform priorities, measure success, and iterate on customer-facing features.

Requirements

• Experience managing frontend engineers delivering production-grade, customer-facing web applications.
• Strong technical background in modern frontend technologies (e.g., React, Next.js, GraphQL) with the ability to guide architecture decisions and code when needed.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams toward successful project delivery while balancing scope, quality, and speed.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A product mindset with a strong focus on user experience and business impact.
• Experience working in platform teams or building shared tooling and reusable components is a plus.
• A track record of fostering a strong team culture, supporting individual growth, and managing performance.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading through change in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with web performance metrics (e.g., Core Web Vitals) and a passion for building fast, intuitive, and reliable web interfaces.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in platform teams or building shared tooling and reusable components.

Qualifications

• Experience managing frontend engineers delivering production-grade, customer-facing web applications.

Benefits & Perks

• Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
• No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
• Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
• 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
• Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Wayfair Employee Discount.
• Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton, Wellhub and varying regional memberships).
• Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
• Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.