Matillion is data transformation for cloud data warehouses. In addition to award-winning, highly rated products, we are proud to have highly rated employee reviews on Glassdoor.

Matillion is dual-headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado and we are expanding teams globally across all functions.

As a company, our core values drive our processes. We have a bias for action, we innovate and demand quality, we work with integrity, we are confident without arrogance, customer obsessed and care about our people and our communities. We are looking for people to join Matillion who share our integrity, drive and passion.

Matillion is built around small development teams with responsibility for specific themes and initiatives. Each team is a mix of engineers with various levels of skills and experience. The Senior Front End Engineer works within a front end engineering team to write, test and release new features and fix problems in the Matillion products. 

Key Areas of Responsibility below

Software Development

• A Senior Front End Engineer is expected to spend most of their time hands-on in the production of software for Matillion products.
• Discuss, establish and maintain the front end solution, including good software design, framework selections and direction of the codebase.
• Solve almost any type of problem with little supervision.
• Provide engineering options, with unbiased pros and cons to meet problems shared by the business.
• Develop UI according to mockups following UX guidelines.
• Work with the team to refine and break down stories to levels implementable by development.
• Work with members of the business teams to ensure customer-centric development of features.
• Develop and improve the confirmation testing strategies (unit test, integration testing) using suitable front end testing libraries.
• Code reviews for team and other teams.

Innovation

• Research projects, including prototyping, to explore future opportunities
• Investigate new technologies
• Optimise the development process through the use of automation, in-house and open source solutions 

Self development and growth

• Develop new skills by working with other members of the team
• Work with the Team Lead and Manager to identify training goals
• Lead and partake in technical discussions within the team
• Actively identify and complete opportunities for self-training and external training
• Drive the team’s process of continual improvement

Support

• Responsive support to the customer-facing colleagues.
• Analysis of logs to identify issues and provide solutions.
• Proactively engage with customer-facing colleagues to avoid exposing Matillion customers to issues

What we are looking for

• Demonstrable JavaScript programming ability, with a specialism in React and its associated ecosystem
• Utilisation and early adoption of modern techniques and features in JavaScript
• Demonstrable experience of developing and deploying JavaScript web applications into a high usage environment
• A track record of delivering software features into production
• Experience of at least one of the following cloud technologies: Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure knowledge
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience of design and integration with backend technologies, such as REST APIs, Websockets, GraphQL utilising suitable data structures and stores

Find out more about Matillion and our core company values.

We are keen to hear from prospective employees, so please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch!