Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
We’re transforming the software industry. We’re Flexera. With more than 50,000 customers across the world, we’re achieving that goal. But we know we can’t do any of that without our team. Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans? Come and see why we’re consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and IDC as a category leader in the marketplace. Learn more at flexera.com
UI Engineering Manager
Time zone: U.K available/flexible between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
As the engineering manager for two platform UI engineering teams within Platform Engineering, you will be a leader that drives UI strategy and roadmap deliveries across the UI environment of our application that solves real and challenging industry problems for our customers. Flexera gives companies clarity into their technology “black hole,” helping business leaders turn IT insight into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions and products that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and agility, Flexera helps enterprises realize IT’s full potential to accelerate their business.
As manager, you will be leading two highly experienced teams of UI engineers that are building and transforming products within Flexera’s suite. You will get insight to cloud, big data infrastructure and lead the teams to continue building out UI capabilities to support Flexera’s architecture.
We are developing with some of the most modern front-end technologies, including React, TypeScript and Styled Components, working closely with Flexera’s design and product teams to continue to build on our “one source of truth” design system using Storybook.
Our products will give customers the visibility they need to be prepared for financial, operational and security events. The UI teams have been building clean and smart UI for these areas over several years and are looking for a UI engineering manager to aid their priorities and objectives.
Job Description: As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for the workload management, wellbeing, and professional growth of the engineers on your teams. You’ll help foster an open and collaborative environment and support systems to help your teams succeed.
You will be leading two platform ui engineering teams within Platform Engineering, which is at the heart of the UI architecture and build of the front-end systems powering our platforms. You will be working in cross-product group collaborations, working closely with the UX Design team and product managers, and supporting our engineering teams to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.
These teams manages the following UI engineering responsibilities:
- UI architecture, application infrastructure and dev operations
- UI systems using UI frameworks, TypeScript packages, and third-party tooling integrations.
- User interaction and web components/design system
- UI best practice patterns, quality, and compliance
- UI observability and support SLOs
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead two UI engineering teams
- Manage team workload, feature roadmap resourcing & coordination in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment.
- Maintain visibility into the product roadmap objectives and share that information back to other managers and team members.
- Participate in team activities, such as roadmap planning, to prioritize features on the roadmap based on availability of humans to do the work and business objectives that need to be met.
- Support wellbeing of team members - providing support & guidance focused primarily on resourcing, technical progression, and soft skills.
- Gather feedback from others, provide coaching weekly & in collaboration with senior/staff engineers to advance team member skill sets.
- Recruitment - leading and coordinating recruitment process from initial contact to offer.
- Budgets - manage engineering tooling budget and renewals with procurement and finance teams.
- Support mentorship on technical upskilling and training UI engineers’ career paths
- Have fun solving difficult problems and managing high priorities across a broad range of customer requests.
The skills you’ll need:
- Min 5 years’ experience planning, tracking, delivering, and managing multiple projects at any one time.
- Experience directly managing, mentoring & supporting people and teams with empathy & professionalism.
- Strong engineering track-record focusing on front-end development & technologies (JS/TS/CSS/HTML), modern frameworks, maintaining UI quality and UI engineering best practices.
- Experience of operating a service at scale with observability and reporting on engineering metrics
- Experience with front end frameworks such as React, Angular
- Experience with Accessibility (a11y) best practices, tools, and techniques such as compatibility with keyboard navigation, screen readers and WCAG guidelines
- Experience with internationalization (i18n) and atomic design
- Experience providing business cases and proposals to Flexera’s senior leadership team.
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written formats
- Being an advocate UX consistency, accessibility, and empathy for the end user
- A good understanding of Cloud Technologies, big data, and SaaS products.
- High experience in business analysis experience communicating comfortably with Product Managers and UX Designers for requirement analysis and driving the engineering teams to come up with solution approach and design for delivering the requirements.
Bonus Points:
- Experience in remote-first environments and global teams
- Familiarity with Performance testing
- Familiarity with AWS and Azure infrastructure
This role is an engineering role and not related to user experience.
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Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations.
Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.
We encourage candidates requiring accommodations to please let us know by emailing [email protected].
Skills Required
- Min 5 years' experience in managing multiple projects
- Experience managing and mentoring teams
- Strong track record in front-end development
- Experience with front end frameworks such as React or Angular
- Experience with Accessibility best practices
- Experience with internationalization (i18n)
- Experience communicating with Product Managers and UX Designers
- Good understanding of Cloud Technologies
Flexera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive, with base salaries often viewed as fair within a total compensation approach that includes bonus and equity components. Feedback suggests the company emphasizes fair compensation practices that support overall satisfaction.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is broad, including generous or unlimited PTO, paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, and bereavement leave. Flexible time-off practices are seen as contributing positively to work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, prescription, dental, and vision alongside mental wellness support. Additional protections like life insurance and optional pet insurance expand the healthcare offering.
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What We Do
Flexera delivers SaaS-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technology investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate. More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide. To learn more, visit flexera.com
Why Work With Us
People work here for, well, the people. People stay for the camaraderie with smart, passionate teams who actually like working together and managers who support them. We also offer competitive benefits, hybrid working and unlimited time off. Our inclusivity scores are in the top benchmark and we are consistently rated a “great place to work.”
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