Staff Platform Engineer: AI-Driven DevEx & Foundations

Malt; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Lunch vouchers

Transport reimbursement

Healthcare insurance

RTT

Sabbatical

Hybrid work policy

Team events

Free books

Job summary

Malt in Paris is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the long-term platform strategy, shaping the architectural standards and reliable infrastructure required for scale across backend and frontend.

You will prototype autonomous AI agent workflows, build self-service tools, and mentor engineers, driving a platform-as-a-product mindset with strong cross-team collaboration and emphasis on high-quality delivery.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience at staff or principal level.
• Proficient in Kotlin or Java with cloud and web frameworks.
• Strong English; French is a bonus.
• Experience building platform-as-a-product thinking.

Responsibilities

• Define 2–3 year platform technical vision and roadmap.
• Architect platform foundations across backend, frontend, and SRE.
• Deliver Platform-as-a-Product with self-service tooling and guardrails.
• Mentor engineers and drive high-quality reviews and architectural alignment.
• Collaborate across platform teams to unify infrastructure and AI workflows.

Skills

15+ years exp

Kotlin/Java

GCP

Nuxt/VueJS

APIs & Data

Staff level

Tools

CI/CD

APIs

DevOps

Job description

Malt in Paris is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the long-term platform strategy, shaping the architectural standards and reliable infrastructure required for scale across backend and frontend.

You will prototype autonomous AI agent workflows, build self-service tools, and mentor engineers, driving a platform-as-a-product mindset with strong cross-team collaboration and emphasis on high-quality delivery.