Web Development Manager

Role & responsibilities

1. Technical and Engineering Leadership

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of web applications.
• Drive technical architecture and design decisions to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Establish coding standards, reusable components, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Conduct code reviews, technical design reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and security vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements that deliver measurable business or engineering value.

2. Web Application Development

• Guide the development of responsive, user-friendly web applications using React.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Oversee backend service and API development using Node.js, Python, FastAPI, or equivalent technologies.
• Ensure seamless integration across frontend applications, REST APIs, databases, authentication services, and external systems.
• Promote modular application architecture, reusable UI components, and maintainable code.
• Ensure applications meet performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, usability, and reliability standards.

3. Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of frontend and backend engineers.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and opportunities for continuous learning and career development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and engineering excellence.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and technical capability development.
• Manage workload distribution, team priorities, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Encourage end-to-end ownership of solutions, from design and development through deployment and production support.

4. Delivery and Agile Execution

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA, and other

engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, effort estimation, retrospectives, and

release planning.

• Drive predictable delivery while maintaining high standards of software quality.
• Track project progress, dependencies, risks, blockers, and technical constraints.
• Ensure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of delivery risks.
• Balance feature development with technical debt reduction, platform improvements, and operational requirements.

5. DevOps and CI/CD

• Drive the adoption of automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote automated unit testing, integration testing, code-quality checks, and security scanning.
• Support containerized deployments and cloud-native application architectures.
• Ensure effective logging, monitoring, observability, and production readiness.
• Improve deployment reliability and release efficiency through engineering automation.

6. Application Security and Quality

• Ensure secure coding practices are followed throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Implement and promote best practices for authentication, authorization, API security, secrets management, input validation, and dependency management.
• Establish appropriate automated testing and code-quality standards.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to address vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
• Lead root-cause analysis of production defects and recurring incidents, ensuring sustainable corrective actions.

7. Stakeholder Management and Collaboration

• Act as the primary engineering point of contact for web development initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Data Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
• Communicate technical decisions, design trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and delivery status to relevant stakeholders.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business implications and recommendations.
• Align engineering priorities with product objectives, customer requirements, and organizational goals.