Senior Staff Software Engineer at matillion

Ready to shape the future of data? Matillion is the intelligent data integration platform. We're changing how the world works with data – and we need driven, curious people who think big and move fast.  We built the Data Productivity Cloud to supercharge data productivity, and now we’re shaping the future of data engineering with Maia – our AI-powered virtual data engineers that help teams design, build, and manage data pipelines at unmatched speed. Join #TeamGreen, where the mission comes first, collaboration drives us forward, and everyone pulls in the same direction to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. Role Purpose 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 is a high-leverage technical leader responsible for driving architectural and engineering excellence across our Hub and Billing ecosystem. The Hub is where Maia Foundation's user management, roles, permissions, authorisation is harnessed, visualised, and controlled. This role is the technical authority also responsible for ensuring our Billing stack 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 Billing System, the evolution of our roles and permissions model, and ensuring our platform performs at a global scale. It sits at the intersection of technical craft, product vision, and organisational influence. What will you be doing? Design and Architecture • Lead the Hub and Billing architectural vision for Matillion's Maia foundation platform, defining scalable patterns, standards, and practices across multiple product squads • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate high-level technical roadmaps into Hub and Billing features the help with Maia foundation platform's evolution • Define and evolve the architecture, ensuring modularity, scalability, and consistency across independently deployed product surfaces • Own the Hub and Billing features — driving customer adoption, contribution to standards, and long-term evolution to ensure consistency at scale • Lead technical design reviews, prototype emerging frontend patterns, and validate architectural proposals before full-scale development Codebase Ownership • Hold final say on architectural decisions that balance innovation velocity with long-term maintainability • Identify and prioritise refactoring targets that will deliver the greatest efficiency and quality gains across the codebase • Ensure all third-party libraries are appropriately licensed, maintained, and fit for purpose • Define and maintain frontend observability practices — using monitoring data as a foundation for proactive stability improvements Development • Champion an agentic development culture — actively integrating AI tools into daily engineering workflows and setting the standard for others to follow • Stay ahead of the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape, evaluating new tools, models, and approaches and feeding insights back into the team's ways of working • Build modular, reusable frontend components designed to be shared across Matillion's product range • Collaborate with Data Science and Product teams to ensure AI-driven features are surfaced through interfaces that are intuitive, performant, and reliable Technical Mentorship • Develop engineering capability across squads through coaching, delegation, and structured feedback • Encourage technical curiosity and participation in architectural discussions at all levels • Advise on both on-the-job and external development opportunities • Model and embed Matillion's engineering values through everyday actions and behaviours What are we looking for Technical/Role Specific • Expert-level proficiency in Java frameworks like springboot, with deep understanding of component architecture, state management concepts, event-driven architectures, test strategies and performance optimisation at scale • Deep knowledge developing and ensuring frontend security • Proficient with agile methodologies, driving efficient and rapid delivery to production • Proven ability to lead the design and delivery of significant frontend projects within a SaaS product environment • Strong experience designing frontend systems that are modular, testable, and capable of supporting complex, AI-driven user workflows • Deep proficiency in agentic development — an established workflow where AI agents are integrated into daily engineering practice to multiply output and quality • Experience leading cross-team strategic efforts and influencing organisational decisions to achieve alignment on major technical goals • Proficiency in diagnosing issues across related domains and fostering a culture where teams use monitoring data as a basis for stability improvements Essential • Proven track record of managing complex Java codebases at scale • Experience with observability tooling and cross-domain debugging • Solid understanding of the cloud data landscape (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) and how users interact with data automation platforms Personal Capabilities • Strategic thinker — able to zoom out to the organisational level while remaining hands-on when needed • Collaborative relationship builder — builds strong relationships with engineers, managers, and product counterparts • Agentic-first mindset — actively champions AI tool adoption and sets the standard for others • Economically minded — makes trade-off decisions that balance long-term maintainability with delivery velocity At Matillion, we’re here to do something hard - change the way the world works with data, and build a great company along the way. Big, bold goals aren’t for the faint-hearted, and we don’t shy away from them. But we don’t do it alone. No egos, no politics - just great people working together, guided by our six core values; - Confidence without arrogance - Working with integrity - Customer obsessed - Innovate and demand quality - Bias for action - We care We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance, with benefits including: - Company Equity - 27 days paid time off - 12 days of Company Holiday - 5 days paid volunteering leave - Group Mediclaim (GMC) - Enhanced parental leave policies - MacBook Pro - Access to various tools to aid your career development More about Matillion Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, London Stock Exchange Group, EDF and Slack trust Matillion for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning and AI. We are a truly global workforce, dual headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, with expanding offices in Hyderabad, India, along with valuable remote colleagues around the world.  We are keen to hear from prospective Matillioners, so even if you don't feel you match all the criteria please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. Alternatively, if you're interested in Matillion but don't see a suitable role, please email [Upgrade to PRO to see contact]. Find out more about life on #TeamGreen here.  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.