Key responsibilities ✨
Collaborative Product Leadership: You'll establish a strong partnership with Product Managers and Designers to translate user needs into innovative technical reality. You thrive in the creative process, confidently challenging ideas and co-creating elegant solutions that directly solve end-users problems.
Take the lead: You’ll own your features end-to-end. From first sketch to release (and beyond). You’re empowered to make decisions and trusted to do what’s right for the product.
Build smart, ship fast: We deploy to production around 70 times a week. You’ll help us keep that rhythm by balancing speed, quality, and business impact.
Be a partner: You bring strong opinions, backed by experience, and you’re not afraid to challenge the status quo when it makes sense.
AI-Augmented Craft: You are curious about (or already using) tools like Cursor, Gemini or Claude Code. You see AI as a pair-programming partner that accelerates delivery while you maintain the "human-in-the-loop" for quality and strategy.
Knowledge Multiplier: As a senior, you’ll help the team navigate this new AI landscape. You’ll share best practices on prompt engineering, AI-driven refactoring, and maintaining a high "quality bar" in an automated world.
Our Tech Stack
Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Internal Design System, Stencil.js
Backend: Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis
Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI
The AI Toolkit: We empower our devs with modern AI coding assistants and are building internal workflows and investigating as many uses as possible (docs, unit tests, migrations)
Data: BigQuery, dbt, Looker, Spark, Python
Life @Malt
Remote Culture: Strong remote culture with most of the team working full-remote from countries where Malt has a physical office and legal entity (France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, or UK).
Tech Days: 15% of engineering time dedicated to technical project, , continuous training and learning, R&D and technology watch.
Tech Conferences: Annual Product, Tech and Data workshop, annual Malt Tech Days, organized and presented by Malt’s engineering team. Opportunity to attend major tech conferences.
About you 🧑🚀
- Bring 6+ years of professional software development experience, including a first role within a product company (SaaS, fintech, marketplace, etc.)
- Demonstrate deep proficiency in Java or Kotlin, with confidence in navigating complex backend architectures, APIs, and data models.
- Product-First Champion: You think beyond the code, driven by curiosity about the user's "why." You proactively propose improvements and champion end-to-end feature ownership from conception to delivery.
- Pragmatic Architect: You drive architectural decisions, leveraging patterns like Hexagonal Architecture for modularity and testing. You skillfully balance long-term scalability with the need to iterate quickly
- AI Empowerment: You view AI as an accelerating force, effectively delegating routine tasks to tools while remaining the strategic "Pilot" responsible for quality, integrity, and preventing architectural drift.
- Full Lifecycle Stewardship: You maintain stewardship over the entire feature lifecycle. From building CI/CD and testing to ensuring observability and monitoring. Shipping is just the start; you are dedicated to quality, longevity, and scalable performance.
- Fluent in English, you are comfortable speaking and writing in an English-speaking environment.
How to join the mission? 🚀
- Screening with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer your questions (45 minutes)
- Interview with one of our Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and the role in more detail (75 minutes)
- Technical assignment (homecase or livecase, you choose) to prepare and present in order to evaluate your hard skills (90 minutes)
- Final interview with Jean (VP Engineering) to discuss Malt’s long term vision (45 minutes)
Skills Required
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Highly proficient in Java or Kotlin
- Fluent in English
- Experience in product companies (SaaS, fintech, marketplace)
What We Do
Malt is a platform that connects businesses with freelancers, finding the perfect match for every project. Our mission is to provide everyone with the freedom to choose what work they do and who they do it with. By helping to redefine the world of work and the relationships we have with it we hope to empower everyone to shape their careers to fit exactly what they’re looking for. Malt was founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège, who were both joined by Alexandre Fretti as Co-CEO in 2020. In March 2022, Malt acquired Comatch, enabling us to create a dedicated category for independent management consultants and interim executives where clients can access vetted expertise, known as Malt Strategy. We have now gained the trust of more than 550,000 freelancers and 70,000 clients, becoming one of the leading marketplaces for freelance talent. We are currently operational in nine countries and regions: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE and the UK. Malt has evolved into a successful scaleup with more than 700 employees from 44 different nationalities, who share the same values of care, ambition, joy and autonomy. Join us and become part of the future of work!
