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.

• 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

• Deep expertise in React and Type Script
• 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

• 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 Calm App 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 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…