Senior Staff Software Engineer

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

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