Software Engineering Manager - UX/UI

About The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Engineering Manager to lead our global UX/UI engineering team, responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable, and accessible user interfaces across multiple product lines. You will work closely with the Director of UX/UI Design to ensure alignment between engineering and design execution, elevate our UI development standards, and support a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who deeply values the craft of frontend development, cares about user experience, and can guide a team through both strategic decisions and implementation details.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and grow a distributed team of UX/UI engineers supporting multiple enterprise product lines.
• Mentor and develop engineers across levels, fostering a culture of ownership, craft, collaboration, and inclusion.
• Set and enforce high standards for frontend architecture, design fidelity, and code quality.
  
  

Collaboration & Design Integration

• Partner closely with UX/UI Design to translate concepts into polished, responsive, and performant UIs.
• Encourage healthy design-dev collaboration, rapid prototyping, and iterative delivery.
• Help the team navigate ambiguity in early-stage product work and contribute meaningfully to discovery.
  
  

Technical Execution

• Provide technical direction and ensure adherence to modern UI development practices (semantic HTML, accessibility, responsive design, design token systems).
• Maintain and scale a component library (e.g., Storybook) as a shared source of truth across engineering and design.
• Drive performance optimization, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility from day one.
  
  

Strategic Impact

• Support build-vs-buy decision making to avoid unnecessary reinvention.
• Advocate for scalable abstractions and tooling improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform engineering, and security to ensure frontend initiatives align with product and compliance goals.
  
  

What You Bring

• Proven experience leading frontend or UI engineering teams, including hiring, performance coaching, and career development.
• Deep expertise in modern frontend technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue or similar), responsive frameworks, and frontend tooling.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with design teams using tools like Figma, particularly features like Dev Mode and design token integration.
• Strong understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG) and how to bake them into the development process.
• Experience with managing and evolving a shared component library (e.g., Storybook, Bit.dev).
  
  

Nice to have

• Familiarity with advanced data visualization libraries and patterns (e.g., D3, Recharts, Sankey diagrams, node graphs).
• Experience working with enterprise SaaS products and navigating complex product ecosystems.
• Awareness of evolving frontend-design workflows, including semantic variable schema creation and cross-team token syncing.
  
  

What We Offer

• A role in shaping the future of protecting the most critical applications that run the world's business and a career that grows as the company grows.
• A unique culture of high achievement and teamwork.
• Supportive and humble colleagues are the space's top problem solvers and innovators.
• Financial security through competitive compensation and incentives.
  
  

Location: Onapsis is establishing a new development center in Bucharest. This is a hybrid role (1-2 days per week from the office), so candidates must be commutable to Bucharest.

About Onapsis

Onapsis protects the business applications that run the global economy. The Onapsis Platform delivers vulnerability management, change assurance, and continuous compliance for business applications from leading vendors such as SAP, Oracle, and others. The Onapsis Platform is powered by the Onapsis Research Labs, the team responsible for the discovery and mitigation of more than 1,000 zero-day vulnerabilities in business applications.

Onapsis is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in Heidelberg, Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and proudly serves hundreds of the world’s leading brands, including close to 30% of the Forbes Global 100, six of the top 10 automotive companies, five of the top 10 chemical companies, four of the top 10 technology companies, and three of the top 10 oil and gas companies.

For more information, connect with Onapsis on LinkedIn or visit https://www.onapsis.com.