Senior Staff Software Engineer Front End

Matillion

Job Location:

Manchester - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 76000 - 114000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Are you ready to shape the future of data

Matillion is the company behind Maia the AI Data Automation platform.

In the AI economy demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering cant keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work that slows data teams down. Organisations like Cisco DocuSign and Slack are already using it to deliver real business impact faster.

We started in Manchester and now were global - with teams across the UK US and India.

We are driven curious energetic people who move fast think big and hold ourselves to a high standard. Were here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And were looking for people who want to be part of it.

About the role

At Matillion we are moving beyond traditional data processing to define the future of the AI Data Automation Platform. Our mission is to make data AI-ready at the speed of thought centred around Maia our autonomous AI data engineering foundation.

The Senior Staff Engineer (Frontend) is a high-leverage technical leader responsible for driving architectural excellence across our React-powered ecosystem. The web UI is where Maias power is harnessed visualised and controlled. This role is the technical authority responsible for ensuring our frontend is as sophisticated and performant as the AI it commands.

This role partners with the Senior Staff community to lead organisational big bets including the evolution of our Design System the expansion of our micro-frontend architecture and ensuring our platform performs at a global scale. It sits at the intersection of technical craft product vision and organisational influence.

Matillion operates on a hybrid basis with us coming together 2 days a week in our Manchester office to collaborate and drive our mission forward.

What you will be doing

Lead the frontend architectural vision for our React-powered platform defining scalable patterns standards and practices across multiple product squads
Own the Design System strategy and micro-frontend architecture driving consistency modularity and long-term scalability across our product surfaces
Champion an agentic development culture integrating AI tools into daily engineering workflows and staying ahead of the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align frontend strategy with the Maia platform roadmap validating architectural proposals before full-scale development
Develop engineering capability across squads through coaching structured feedback and leading by example on Matillions engineering values

What we are looking for

Expert-level React and TypeScript deep understanding of component architecture state management event-driven architectures test strategies and performance optimisation at scale
Proven ability to lead the design and delivery of significant frontend projects in a SaaS product environment including cross-team strategic efforts like Design Systems or micro-frontends
Deep proficiency in agentic development AI tools are already part of your daily engineering workflow not something youre exploring

Strong experience designing modular testable frontend systems capable of supporting complex AI-driven user workflows with a solid grasp of frontend security best practices
A strategic economically-minded thinker who can zoom out to the organisational level influence decisions and balance long-term maintainability with delivery velocity

At Matillion we are committed to providing compensation in line with market standards based on the role job family job level and country. This roles estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is 76000 - 114000. The final salary will be based on your relevant skills experience and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process.

More about Matillion

We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance with benefits including:

Company Equity
30 days holiday bank holiday
5 days paid volunteering leave
Private Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Pension
Access to mental health support

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Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion age sex national origin disability status genetics sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Are you ready to shape the future of dataMatillion is the company behind Maia the AI Data Automation platform.In the AI economy demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering cant keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work tha...