Senior Front End Engineer

Description

About the Role: Meltwater's GenAI Lens is the 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.

• 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

• 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

Must-have

• Deep expertise in React and Type Script
• Strong understanding of rendering, state management, and performance optimization
• Experience shipping complex production applications
• Experience integrating with Graph
  
  QL 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

• 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 Calm App subscription for you and your loved ones
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development within an inclusive community

At Meltwater, we believe great impact deserves great reward. Our compensation approach is data-driven, market-informed, and built to scale with your growth. 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 to support long-term growth; compensation evolves as scope, performance, and impact expand over time.

We regularly review compensation practices and conduct pay equity analyses to ensure fairness and market alignment. Employees and candidates may request additional information on compensation in line with local legal requirements. Our Talent Acquisition Team can walk you through the full compensation picture during the interview process.

Meltwater is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every employee feels valued, respected, and empowered. All employment decisions are 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 applicable laws.

We may use AI to assist in aspects of our hiring process, but every output is reviewed by humans and hiring decisions are made by humans. We are committed to evaluating candidates fairly and in compliance with all applicable laws.