Explore your future career 🔭
Reporting directly to our CTO, you will lead our Enterprise & Freelance Management System (FMS) engineering organization across London, Paris, and Lyon. You will manage engineering managers and staff engineers to position Malt as the global system of record for enterprise freelance workforces. Your scope spans account deployment, B2B integrations, compliance by design, the Vault, public sector expansion, and agent-to-agent AI explorations. Working alongside Product and Design, you will turn strategic commercial ambition into a scalable platform, roadmap, and world-class engineering team
Key responsibilities ✨
- Build and lead a high-performing Enterprise engineering organisation, structuring teams while mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
- Co-own the Enterprise & FMS vision with Product and Design, driving outcomes like faster time-to-deploy, higher platform adoption, and international expansion.
- Architect and scale an API-first integrations platform, enabling seamless connections with procurement, P2P, VMS, ERP, and HRIS systems alongside agent-to-agent (A2A/MCP) explorations.
- Embed compliance by design across all markets, building worker classification safeguards, secure vaults, and custom contract capabilities directly into the product.
- Act as the executive engineering voice in client face-offs, joining strategic sales deals, security reviews, and C-level conversations with CTOs, CIOs, and Procurement leaders.
- Modernize back-office tools and operational workflows using AI and automation to lower our cost-to-serve and empower internal teams.
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, security, delivery performance, and championing an AI-native engineering culture.
About you 🧑🚀
- 10+ years of software engineering leadership experience in Enterprise B2B SaaS, with a proven track record of managing leaders (Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers) and building organizations at scale.
- Extensive software engineering leadership experience within fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environments.
- Strong product and commercial acumen focused on real business outcomes. You bring a product-oriented mindset, excelling at making and explaining trade-offs between bespoke enterprise requests and scalable platform leverage.
- Proven track record in international leadership, building high-trust, cohesive, and inclusive engineering cultures across distributed European hubs (such as London, Paris, and Lyon).
- Deep architectural judgement in multi-tenancy, API-first integration patterns, and compliance-driven product design within complex B2B SaaS or marketplace platforms.
- Excellent professional fluency in English, with the communication clarity and technical stature to engage credibly with enterprise decision-makers (CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, Procurement heads) and win complex RFPs.
- Forward-thinking leadership in driving AI transformation, guiding exploratory bets (e.g., agentic workflows), and fostering an innovative, AI-native team culture.
How to join the mission? 🚀
- First call with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes)
- Interview with your future manager Claire, our CTO, to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes)
- Cross-functional interviews with our CPO, Sébastien and one of our commercial leader. (2 hours)
- Final on site interviews with our CEO to discuss Malt's long-term vision, growth mindset, and cultural alignment.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering leadership experience in Enterprise B2B SaaS
- Experience managing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers and building organizations at scale
- Product and commercial acumen focused on customer and business outcomes
- Track record driving engineering execution and building cohesive teams across distributed hubs
- Native-level English communication skills and ability to lead discussions with enterprise decision-makers
- Experience winning complex enterprise and public sector RFPs
- Deep architectural judgment in multi-tenancy, API integration patterns, and compliance-driven product design
- Strong leadership in AI transformation and exploratory agentic workflows
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!
