Who you are

- Proficiency in React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with a track record of shipping production-quality frontend code
- A product-minded engineering approach

- Comfort owning UX and UI decisions independently

- Hands-on experience with iterative development practices, including A/B testing and feature experimentation

- Familiarity with user analytics tools such as Mixpanel or a comparable platform

- Experience with UI testing frameworks and a solid grounding in frontend engineering best practices

- Confidence collaborating cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and backend engineers
- A track record of using user feedback and data to improve features

- Experience using coding agents (eg Claude, Codex, OpenCode) to improve productivity and code quality

- Exposure to backend development, including RESTful APIs and cloud deployments

- Experience conducting or participating in user interviews as part of a product discovery process

- We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you

What the job involves

- At Speechmatics, we’re expanding our user platform offering. We're looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer with a strong product mindset to help drive that growth. This is an opportunity to own end-to-end feature development at a leading-edge AI company, from shaping the user experience through to shipping and iterating based on real user feedback and analytics data

- Own product features from ideation through to delivery, contributing to UX thinking, frontend execution, and post-launch iteration

- Build polished, accessible user interfaces using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

- Make UX and UI decisions independently,



collaborating closely with designers and PMs rather than waiting on detailed handoffs

- Design and run A/B tests to validate product decisions and surface insights that improve the user experience

- Use analytics tooling such as Mixpanel to understand how people interact with the product and feed that learning back into what gets built

- Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to ship features that genuinely move the needle for users and the business

- Write and maintain robust UI tests, taking ownership of quality in production and at scale

- Run user interviews and meet customers to understand how people use the product and what drives adoption

Benefits

- Incredibly Flexible Working ?
- With our 'Focus Fridays' you get an undisturbed day of focus ?‍♀️, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings ?

- Company Lunches, with fully stocked snacks and drinks ?

- Private Medical and Dental for you and your family ? Our plan is Medical History Disregarded, and we cover the premiums

- Global Working Opportunities ?

- Generous Holiday Allowance ☀️

- Pension/401K matching ?
- Home allowance for tech/home office equipment (on top of your choice of laptop, screen and accessories- of course) ?‍?

- EV Scheme ?
- Work from Abroad Scheme ?️

- Learning &
- Development budget ?

- Enhanced Parental Leave ?
- Free In office Massages ?‍♀️

- Independent Financial Advice ?

- Friday Lunch Yoga ?
- Wellbeing Support ? Health Assured provide: A 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme

- Charity Day ?️
- Cycle to Work Scheme ?

- Life Insurance ?

- Referral Bonus ?‍?

- Patent Bonus ?

- Income Protection ?
- Reproductive Health Plan ?‍⚕️ We are providing access for Speechlings to receive specialist reproductive health services that can include

- Hormone &
- Fertility Tests
- Fertility Advisor Calls
- Menopause Consultations (Advanced Nurse Prescriber)
- Nutrition Consultations (Prenatal, Postpartum, Fertility or Menopause)
- Fertility Counselling
- Private Gynaecologist Consultations.

📌 Senior Front-End Software Engineer (Cambridge)
🏢 Speechmatics
📍 Cambridge