Frontend Tech Lead Manager, Mill
$230-260k
+ Potential equity grant
2+ days a week in office (San Bruno, CA)
Food waste recycling subscription company
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Food waste recycling subscription company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-260k
+ Potential equity grant
2+ days a week in office (San Bruno, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience in frontend engineering, with a strong focus on building and scaling modern web applications
- Deep expertise with big frameworks or framework knowledge in general and TypeScript, plus solid knowledge of at least one other major web framework (Vue, React, Angular, Svelte)
- Production experience with big frameworks or framework knowledge in general, with a good understanding of mobile release cycles and cross-platform challenges
- Proven leadership experience: mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and managing teams or projects
- Strong understanding of frontend architecture patterns, API integration, state management, and performance optimization
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, build tooling, testing frameworks, and code quality enforcement
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to align technical strategy with business and product needs
- Previous experience in a hybrid Tech Lead + Manager role, balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership
- Proven experience in developing enterprise applications as part of a product team
Desirable
- Experience with native iOS and/or Android development (nice to have, but not required)
- Familiarity with release automation, feature flagging, and experimentation platforms
- Background working in environments that include backend APIs, serverless applications, or real-time/IoT integrations
- Experience with hybrid web applications (shared components, webviews, other technologies)
- Exposure to compliance or security frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001, etc.)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Frontend Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead the development of our web and mobile applications
- This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management: you’ll guide the architecture and delivery of our frontend systems, while also growing, mentoring, and empowering a team of engineers
- You’ll work closely with product, design, and backend teams to shape our product strategy and deliver seamless, scalable user experiences
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance feedback
- Drive the frontend strategy and architecture across web and mobile applications
- Ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable, and performant applications using modern web (and mobile) frameworks
- Establish engineering best practices: code quality, testing automation, CI/CD, observability, performance monitoring, and accessibility
- Partner with product and design teams to define requirements, prioritize roadmaps, and ensure cohesive user experiences across platforms
- Contribute hands-on to the codebase where needed, while maintaining a high-level view of system design and technical direction
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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