Manager of Front-End Engineering, Jobber

CA$151.2-204.5k

+ Equity. The role has a midpoint of $177,900. 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

React

TypeScript

Wordpress

Next.js

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Vancouver

1+ day a week in office

Job tracking and customer management software for home service businesses

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Job tracking and customer management software for home service businesses

1001+ employees

B2BCommunicationCustomer serviceFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Be an early applicant

CA$151.2-204.5k

React

TypeScript

Wordpress

Next.js

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Vancouver

1+ day a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BCommunicationCustomer serviceFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Company mission

To help home service professionals around the world win.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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
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
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

What the job involves

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
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
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
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

Our take

For businesses that sell home services, it can be difficult to keep up with paperwork, scheduling appointments, and chasing payments, especially when their teams are small. Jobber delivers a comprehensive toolbox to keep track of all these aspects, so that small business owners can concentrate on more important things like serving their customers and building their brand.

Jobber was founded in 2011, initially to help a friend who owned a small painting business. The founders quickly discovered that what they were building could help many more owners across several industries, going on to launch the product, which is now used by over 300,000 home service professionals in over 60 countries.

What makes Jobber stand out is that it collects all the vital parts of running a home services business into one place, removing the burden of keeping track of multiple sources of information. The company has seen significant funding, which it has invested in R&D and growing its customer base, and boasts four consecutive years on The Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies List.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2023

$100m

SERIES D

Jan 2021

$60m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $185.8m

Company HQ

Downtown, Edmonton, AB

Leadership

Sam Pillar

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Prior to co-founding Jobber in 2011, Sam was a Freelance Software Developer at Cardboard Creative and a Business Analyst/Management Consultant at CGI.

Forrest Zeisler

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Experienced Developer, with a degree in Engineering from the University of Alberta.

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