web UI

Matillion Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Equity

Holiday + bank holiday

Volunteering leave

Private Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension

Mental Health Support

Safety

Job summary

Matillion Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer (Frontend) to lead architectural excellence for our React-powered UI of the Maia AI Data Automation platform. You will drive scalable patterns, oversee the Design System, and expand micro-frontends across product squads.

You will champion agentic development, working with Product and Engineering leaders to align frontend strategy with Maia's roadmap. Hybrid work, strong compensation, and a fast-paced, innovative environment await.

Qualifications

• Expertise in React and TypeScript with strong UI component architecture.
• Experience leading frontend projects in SaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of design systems and modular frontend architectures.
• Proven ability to influence large-scale frontend strategy and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the frontend architectural vision for our React-powered platform across product squads.
• Own the Design System strategy and micro-frontend architecture for consistency and scalability.
• Champion agentic development by integrating AI tools into engineering workflows.
• Align frontend strategy with Maia platform roadmap and validate architectural proposals.
• Develop engineering capability through coaching and exemplify Matillion's engineering values.
• Ensure frontend systems are modular, testable, and secure at scale.
• Drive cross-team initiatives like Design Systems or micro-frontends.
• Balance long-term maintainability with delivery velocity at an organizational level.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Design System

Micro frontends

Frontend architecture

Performance tuning

Security best practices

Leadership

Job description

Are you ready to shape the future of data? Matillion is the company behind , the AI Data Automation platform. In the AI economy, demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering can't 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 we're 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. We're here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And we're 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 Maia's 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 Matillion's engineering values
• 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 you're 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 role's estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is £76,000 - £114,000. 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.

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

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.