Staff Engineer Platform

Malt; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (Stock options)

Lunch vouchers €9/day (Swile)

Transportation 50% reimbursement

Healthcare insurance

RTT: 8–12 days/year

Gymlib membership

Sabbatical after 3 years

Books on request

Remote work: Hybrid policy

Team building events

Job summary

Malt is Europe’s leading freelance marketplace, seeking a Staff/Principal level platform engineer to shape the long-term tech strategy for Malt's engineering platform. You will partner with Backend, Frontend, and SRE leads to design enterprise-grade foundations and autonomous AI workflows, enabling product teams to focus on core logic.

You will help drive architectural alignment, deliver self-service tooling, and mentor engineers across squads, balancing technical objectives with business

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience at Staff/Principal level in high-scale platform environments.
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java, and comfortable with GCP and modern web frameworks (e.g., Nuxt/VueJS).
• Experience navigating complex backend architectures, APIs, and data models.
• Strong leadership and ability to mentor engineers across teams.
• Ability to think beyond code and treat the developer experience as a product.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical vision and 2–3 year roadmap for Malt's engineering platform (backend and frontend).
• Architect platform foundations with Backend, Frontend, and SRE leads for enterprise-grade capabilities.
• Prototype, scale, and embed autonomous AI agents into the software development lifecycle.
• Deliver Platform-as-a-Product with self-service tools, components, guardrails, and documentation.
• Contribute production code on the platforms you design and build the hardest parts.
• Drive adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes.
• Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers to develop skills and agentic patterns.
• Drive technical alignment and change management across teams without relying on top-down authority.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

GCP

Nuxt/VueJS

APIs

Backend architecture

Microservices

Software architecture

Job description

Discover our galaxy Join the Future of Work! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ 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

Key Responsibilities

• Set the Long-Term Platform Tech Strategy: Define the 2–3 year technical vision and roadmap for Malt's engineering platform — backend, frontend — alongside platform leads, ensuring architectural consistency, security, and high reliability across all engineering squads. Agentic capabilities are a central pillar of that vision, not a side project.
• Architect Platform Foundations: Partner closely with Backend, Frontend, and SRE leads to design and build our company-wide platform foundations — from core shared infrastructure through to our agentic layer, consolidating existing POCs into unified, enterprise-grade capabilities.
• Pioneer Agentic DevEx Workflows: Prototype, scale, and embed autonomous AI agents into the software development lifecycle (e.g., agentic MR reviews, automated code quality, and security fixes) so product teams can focus strictly on core product logic.
• Deliver Platform-as-a-Product: Provide product engineers with self-service tools, reusable components, clear guardrails, and documentation making both our platform foundations and our autonomous workflows the natural, default way to ship software at Malt.
• Build, Hands-On: Contribute directly to the platform. You'll write production code on the systems you design: the hardest parts, the reference implementations, the things nobody else can unblock.
• Raise the Bar: Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes, including thorough code and architecture reviews. Foster operational excellence across the platform.
• Mentor and Coach: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the platform team, particularly Senior and mid-level engineers, helping them develop their skills, master agentic patterns, and advance their careers.
• Drive Technical Alignment & Change Management: Act as a technical catalyst, influencing and aligning backend, frontend, and engineering leads around transformative AI agent paradigms without relying on top-down authority.

About You

• Technical Expertise: You have 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including a proven track record operating at a Staff or Principal level in high-scale platform environments. You're highly proficient in Kotlin or Java, comfortable across GCP and modern web frameworks (e.g. Nuxt/VueJS), and at ease 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 built product-grade agentic workflows within the software development lifecycle: systems engineers rely on daily to review, test, or ship code, not demos or POCs.
• Clear leadership: You excel at working effectively in uncertain and evolving environments, managing the interaction between technical objectives and business priorities.
• Platform as a Product Mindset: You think beyond the code. Your product is the developer experience: you're curious about the "why" behind the workflows, core components you build, proactive in proposing improvements, and you own delivery from A to Z: including the adoption, not just the architecture.
• 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).

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 new joiners at our office in Paris
• Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options
• Lunch vouchers (legal benefit): €9/day on your Swile card
• Transportation (legal benefit): 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)
• Healthcare insurance (legal benefit)
• RTT: From 8 to 12 days off per year
• Sports: Company participation to a Gymlib (Wellpass) membership
• Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully 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: Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office
• Team building events organized every year

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.

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