Hybrid Senior Staff Software Engineer

at Matillion

• Job title: Senior Staff Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Matillion, Spring Boot, SpringBoot
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer driving architectural excellence within Matillion's AI-powered data integration platform. Leading technical design and strategy for scalable data solutions with a focus on collaboration.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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