Senior Backend Engineer

🪐 Discover our galaxy

Malt is Europe's leading freelancing platform with one clear mission: to give people the freedom to choose who they work with. Co-founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet, who still serves as CEO, Malt is a tech company with a human approach that helps companies and freelancers make the perfect match.

Malt is a marketplace that embraces a community of over 700,000 freelancers and over 70,000 clients, ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. More than just a connector, our marketplace streamlines freelancer-client communications, simplifies administrative and legal tasks, expedites invoicing and payments, and so much more.

We are all about giving both freelancers and companies choice and added peace of mind, so that every experience on Malt is nothing less than (inter)stellar. The launch of Malt Strategy in 2023 enabled Malt to broaden its scope by offering the expertise of a network of top independent consultants and transition managers, to better support companies from the strategy to the implementation of ambitious projects.

✨ Malt is also…

- a tech company with a human approach

- a company with a strong culture fueled by 700 Malters from 40+ nationalities, working from 9 countries all around Europe - Germany, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Netherlands, Nordic countries, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

- committed to creating a safe and inclusive space where every employee can thrive both personally and professionally

- committed to equality and diversity (50% of People managers are women)

- a company with strong career path policies allowing all Malters to develop and grow equally

- backed by renowned investors including ISAI, Serena, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs and BPI France

Join us on Planet Malt, we need you to help us write this next chapter! 🪐

At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

Explore your future career 🔭

Malt is growing rapidly. In order to achieve its ambitious goals, we offer you the opportunity to join the Malt engineering team as a Senior Back Engineer.

The Engineering team works hand-in-hand with Product and Data teams to create the most efficient marketplace for our freelancers and clients. The Engineering team also supports the other teams at Malt by providing them with the tools they need to make their day-to-day life easier. 

We are organized in tribes. Each tribe is responsible for a part of the product from floor to ceiling (user research, design, architecture, support, technical debt, production...), and imagines the best solutions to reach the product common goals and thus contribute directly to the company's growth. 

At Malt, we believe that curiosity is an asset. The whole team participates in the product architecture, all decisions are collegial, and we regularly engage in discussions on the best way to do things.

You can read more about the work of the Engineering team in our blog, Inside Malt.

Key responsibilities ✨

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will integrate one of our product squads, composed of 3-5 engineers, a Product Manager, and a Product Designer. Your team will work on a part of our product in autonomy.
• You will be responsible for all aspects of the development: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Beyond the technical mastery, your ability to understand the business, propose improvements and your sense of detail will directly contribute to your success
• We are looking for a person who is communicative, curious and eager to improve and to help others to improve

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 
• Mobile: Swift, Kotlin
• Data: Big Query, Looker, Spark, Python

We practice continuous integration and delivery, we update Malt around 70 times per week in production. We intensively use Datadog for production monitoring and alerting.

Life @Malt

• A strong remote culture (most of the team is full-remote throughout Europe)
• One day per week dedicated to guild work (technical watch, experimentation …)
• Every month we have a knowledge sharing session with all the developers at Malt 
• Once per year, dedicated days to attend our Malt Tech Days, a tech conference that is organized and presented by Malt’s engineering team.
• Day-to-day use of pair programming, empowers collaboration and fosters a sense of teamwork among the tech team. 
• A detailed career path allowing you to set achievable objectives (with the help of your engineering manager) and a progression over time.

About you 🧑‍🚀

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• You have significant experience in Java or Kotlin
• Understanding data modelling, database fundamentals, API design, caching and architecture patterns
• You are using best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
• You are interested in approaches around good practices of coding (clean code, DDD, scalability, security...)
• You easily adapt to constantly changing environments.
• You are flexible, but not wedded to any specific methodology.
• Business orientation and product mind, ability to take full ownership
• Fluent in spoken and written English

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 Home assignment to prepare and present in order to evaluate your hard skills
• Final interview with Jean (Director of Engineering) to discuss Malt’s long term vision (45 minutes)




We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫

- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris

- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options 

- Lunch vouchers: €9/day on your Swile card.

- Transportation: 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)

- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off

- Malt sabbatical: After three years, every Malter is entitled to a one month paid sabbatical leave.

- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow.

- Remote work: full remote or hybrid from one of our offices (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Lille, Marseille)

- Annual team building events

Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐