Senior Front End Engineer

Senior Front End Engineer

Location: Redwood City, CA, United States

GenAI Lens is Meltwater's flagship AI-powered intelligence experience — live in production and central to our product differentiation and growth. We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to evolve and scale this experience. You'll build fast, reliable, and accessible AI-native interfaces that surface large-scale NLP and LLM insights inside the Meltwater application. Working within established frontend standards, you'll focus on improving performance, reducing bugs, strengthening accessibility, and continuously raising the quality of our AI-driven experiences. You'll collaborate closely with design, backend, and AI/ML engineers to deliver intuitive, trustworthy intelligence at scale.

What You'll Work On:

• Owning complex frontend features end-to-end, through production hardening
• Rendering large LLM outputs without sacrificing performance
• Streaming AI responses into interactive workflows
• Visualizing model confidence and explainability
• Designing trust signals in AI-powered interfaces
• Managing complex state across multi-step AI workflows (refine, regenerate, filter)
• Building interactive, data-heavy dashboards
• Driving performance optimization and eliminating production bottlenecks
• Ensuring and improving accessibility standards
• Contributing to frontend architecture and system evolution

Level Expectations:

• Own complex frontend features end-to-end
• Contribute to architectural decisions and system quality
• Drive high standards in performance, accessibility, and reliability
• Proactively simplify and strengthen the frontend platform
• Collaborate deeply with design, backend, and AI/ML partners
• Share knowledge and elevate frontend craft within the team

What You'll Bring:

Must-have

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of rendering, state management, and performance optimization
• Experience shipping complex production applications
• Experience integrating with GraphQL and/or REST APIs
• Strong debugging skills across browser and runtime performance
• Clear ownership mindset and ability to work independently
• Genuine interest in Generative AI
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience with Next.js
• Experience in a monorepo environment
• Experience building AI-powered or data-intensive products
• Familiarity with frontend observability tools
• Strong product intuition and eye for design

What We Offer:

• Enjoy comprehensive paid time off that allows you to have an enhanced work-life balance
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision options
• 401(k) matching, life insurance, commuter benefits, and parental leave plans
• Complimentary CalmApp subscription for you and your loved ones, because mental wellness matters.
• Thrive within our inclusive community and seize ongoing professional development opportunities to elevate your career.

Compensation Overview: At Meltwater, we believe great impact deserves great reward. Our compensation approach is data-driven, market-informed, and built to scale with your growth. We benchmark roles against external market data and use structured leveling frameworks to ensure fairness, consistency, and internal equity across teams and geographies. These frameworks are based on objective, gender-neutral criteria in line with applicable pay transparency regulations. For this role, the base salary range is $188,000-$250,000 USD. Actual offers are determined based on job-related skills, experience, demonstrated capabilities, and work location. We typically hire within the range in a way that supports long-term growth, recognizing that compensation evolves as scope, performance, and impact expand over time. We regularly review our compensation practices and conduct pay equity analyses to help ensure our decisions remain fair, objective, and market-aligned. Employees and candidates may request additional information on how compensation is determined, in line with local legal requirements. Our Talent Acquisition Team is happy to walk you through the full compensation picture specific to your location and level during the interview process.

Our Story: At Meltwater, we believe that when you have the right people in the right environment, great things happen. Our best-in-class technology empowers our 27,000 customers around the world to make better business decisions through data. But we can't do that without our global team of developers, innovators, problem-solvers, and high-performers who embrace challenges and find new solutions for our customers. Our award-winning global culture drives everything we do and creates an environment where our employees can make an impact, learn every day, feel a sense of belonging, and celebrate each other's successes along the way. We are innovators at the core who see the potential in people, ideas and technologies. Together, we challenge ourselves to go big, be bold, and build best-in-class solutions for our customers. We're proud of our diverse team of 2,200+ employees in 50 locations across 25 countries around the world. No matter where you are, you'll work with people who care about your success and get the support you need to unlock new heights in your career. We are Meltwater. Inspired by innovation, powered by people.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Meltwater is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: At Meltwater, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every employee feels valued, respected, and empowered. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and strive to provide a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Meltwater are made based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the applicable laws and regulations. Meltwater does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we actively promote a culture of respect, fairness, and inclusivity. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities to apply and join us in our mission to drive innovation and make a positive impact in the world.

We may use AI to assist in aspects of our hiring process, such as reviewing candidate information, capturing interview notes, and supporting interview activities. These tools are used only to assist our team through increased efficiencies. Every output continues to be reviewed by humans, and all hiring decisions are made by humans. We remain committed to evaluating candidates fairly, consistently, and in compliance with all applicable laws.