About this role
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 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.
More about Matillion
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
Your Safety
Matillion recruiters will only contact you from @matillion.com email addresses. We occasionally work with trusted recruiting partners; they will always tell you they are working on our behalf. We will never ask for money, fees, or bank details at any point in the hiring process. If something feels off, trust that instinct. Don't click any links. Go straight to matillion.com/careers to verify open roles or reach us at [email protected].
Want to know more?
Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.
Cannot find anything suitable role right now? We still want to hear from you. Drop us a line at [email protected].
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.
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.
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
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
Matillion is the company behind Maia, 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.
More about Matillion
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
Your Safety
Matillion recruiters will only contact you from @matillion.com email addresses. We occasionally work with trusted recruiting partners; they will always tell you they are working on our behalf. We will never ask for money, fees, or bank details at any point in the hiring process. If something feels off, trust that instinct. Don't click any links. Go straight to matillion.com/careers to verify open roles or reach us at [email protected].
Want to know more?
Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.
Cannot find anything suitable role right now? We still want to hear from you. Drop us a line at [email protected].
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.
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.
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
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
Tech stack
JavaSnowflakeDatabricks
About Matillion
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