Front-End Development Manager

About Restore Hyper Wellness 

Restore Hyper Wellness is the award-winning creator of Hyper Wellness—a revolutionary new category in health. With over 200 studios across 40 states, we deliver innovative, science-backed therapies that empower our clients to look and feel their best. By joining Restore, you’re part of a movement dedicated to expanding the limits of personal potential and performance to help people do more of what they love. 

Why Join Us? 

• Pioneering Wellness: Be a part of an industry-leading company at the forefront of wellness innovation. 
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly influence the quality of care and service our clients receive, making a tangible difference every day. 
• Innovation and Collaboration: Work in a dynamic environment where you’ll collaborate across multiple departments, contributing to a comprehensive wellness strategy. 
• Commitment to Employee Wellness: Enjoy complimentary access to Restore’s cutting-edge therapies, including onsite services at our Austin Headquarters office. 
• Growth and Development: Access opportunities to develop your skills, advance your career, and help shape the future of wellness. 

Role Overview 

Job Title: Front-End Development Manager
Location: Austin, TX / Open to remote within US (EST or CST)
Department: Technology
Reports to: VP of Product
Job Type: Full-time, Exempt 

We're seeking an experienced Front-End Development Manager to lead our distributed development team and drive the technical excellence of our consumer-facing web properties. This role combines technical leadership, remote team management, and architectural oversight to deliver high-performance web experiences for our wellness customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management
• Lead and mentor a flexible team of remote contract developers across multiple time zones
• Establish development standards, best practices, and coding guidelines
• Manage team capacity, scaling the team up or down based on project demands
• Coordinate with product management to establish delivery timelines and resource requirements
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to team members
• Technical Architecture & Development
• Own the front-end technical architecture, ensuring consistency across all web properties
• Drive TypeScript adoption and implementation across the platform
• Establish and maintain development standards for responsive, mobile-first design
• Optimize page load performance and implement performance monitoring
• Integrate server-side rendering solutions for SEO optimization
• Manage the implementation and evolution of our component library
• Partner with Data team to implement analytics solutions (likely Mixpanel)
• Ensure comprehensive analytics tracking across all user interactions
• Collaborate with back-end team to identify and request API enhancements
• CMS Leadership
• Own and architect our headless CMS implementation (likely Strapi or Keystone JS)
• Design content models that support our marketing and operational needs
• Establish content governance and management processes
• Ensure CMS security and performance
• Integrate CMS with our front-end architecture
• Project Management
• Partner with project managers in sprint planning and prioritization exercises
• Lead sprint ceremonies for the front-end team while coordinating with Kanban-based back-end team
• Collaborate with product managers to define technical requirements and timelines
• Establish project tracking and reporting processes
• Ensure consistent delivery quality across all team members
• Manage technical documentation and knowledge sharing
• Balance team capacity across sprint commitments
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies between sprint and Kanban workflows

Requirements

• Education: 
• BS in an engineering discipline
• Experience: 
• 5+ years of front-end development experience
• 3+ years of team management experience, particularly with remote/distributed teams
• Strong experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript and front-end frameworks
• Experience with headless CMS architecture and implementation
• Experience with SEO optimization and server-side rendering
• Experience implementing and managing analytics solutions
• Experience coordinating cross-team dependencies
• Experience managing offshore development teams in India or Latin America (preferred)
• Experience with EJS templating (preferred)