The Role
Join Malt as a Staff Software Engineer, leading high-impact projects, shaping technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in a complex software environment.
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Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 700,000 talented freelancers with 70,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different:
- A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries
- A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth
- Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI
- A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently
Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐
At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.
Explore your future career 🔭
As a Staff Software Engineer at Malt, you play a pivotal role in shaping the company's technical direction, architecture, and execution. Staff Engineers are technical leaders who innovate to build solutions that will support the company's growth. This is achieved through individual contributions, applying technical skills to deliver products that will revolutionise the world of freelancing. Additionally, you provide technical leadership by addressing organization-wide design and architectural challenges and guiding their implementation. Finally, you play an active role in the lead engineering group, contributing to the definition and enhancement of company-wide software and systems engineering standards.
Key responsibilities ✨
- Lead High-Impact Projects: Lead, plan, and drive the execution of large, complex, and sometimes high-risk engineering projects that often span across multiple teams or systems.
- Architectural Design: Design, develop, and implement scalable, efficient, and robust software solutions and systems.
- Set Technical Vision: Define the short-term and long-term technical strategy and roadmap for a critical area, domain, or the organization's technology infrastructure.
- Raise the Bar: Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes, including conducting thorough code reviews. Provide architectural guidance and foster operational excellence.
- Mentorship and Coaching: Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, particularly Senior and mid-level engineers, to help them develop their skills and advance their careers.
- Coordination and Alignment: Act as a "glue" person, coordinating technical efforts and communication across multiple squads, departments, and stakeholders (e.g., Product Managers, Engineering Managers).
- Influence Engineering Culture: Champion and cultivate a robust engineering culture that prioritizes ownership, excellence, and speed.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Zeroheight
- Backend: Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis
- Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Datadog Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI
- Mobile: Flutter, Swift, Kotlin
- Data: BigQuery, Looker, Spark, Python
Life @Malt
- Remote Culture: Strong remote culture with most of the team working full-remote throughout Europe.
- Guild Days: Technical guilds: Practice sharing, continuous training, experimentation and technology watch.
- Tech Conferences: Annual Malt Tech Days, organized and presented by Malt’s engineering team. Opportunity to attend major tech conferences.
- Career Path: Detailed career path allowing you to set achievable objectives and progress over time.
About you 🧑🚀
- Technical Expertise: You have 10+ years of professional experience in software development, with a first experience in a product company (SaaS, fintech, marketplace…). You're highly proficient in Java or Kotlin, and comfortable navigating complex backend architecture, APIs, and data models.
- AI‑Driven Innovator: Passionate about AI topics, you regularly keep up to date with the latest developments. You have already worked on AI topics, whether for internal productivity or in a product.
- Clear leadership: You excel at working effectively in uncertain and evolving environments, managing the interaction between technical objectives and business priorities.
- Technical Mentor: You have strong technical and craft skills, enabling you to effectively disseminate best practices within the team and provide valuable coaching to “classic” developers or ML engineers.
- Product Mindset: You think beyond the code. You’re curious about the “why” behind features, and you're proactive in proposing improvements and owning delivery from A to Z.
- Resourceful: You always find a way of getting things done, even under severe staffing constraints.
- Impactful: You demonstrate excellent ownership and problem-solving skills, with a high degree of agency in driving solutions.
- Strong interpersonal abilities: You possess excellent written and oral communication skills in English (French is a valuable bonus).
How to join the mission? 🚀
- First call with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Business Partner, to better understand your background, aspirations, and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes)
- Interview with your future manager, Jean (VP engineering), to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes)
- Product case and debrief with PM, Design & EM to explore how you collaborate with stakeholders, manage conflicts, delivery and innovation
- Technical case and debrief with staff engineers to validate your mastery of technical and architectural subjects
- Final interview with Claire (CTO) to discuss Malt’s long-term vision (interview at the Paris office)
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 🪐
At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.
Top Skills
Argocd
Datadog
Elasticsearch
Flutter
Gitlab Ci
Google Cloud Platform
Gradle
Java Spring Boot
Kotlin
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Nuxt
Postgres
Python
RabbitMQ
Redis
Spark
Swift
Terraform
Typescript
Vue
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The Company
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!
