Senior Engineering Manager

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 Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐 **Explore your future career 🔭**As Malt accelerates its international expansion, you will drive the engineering transformation required to support complex, top-down Enterprise capabilities. In this role, you will take full ownership of the delivery, technical efficiency, and growth of 1–2 high-impact product squads (8–10 engineers). You will shape system architecture strategy—leading core decoupling initiatives—while elevating delivery standards and empowering your team to scale. ### Key responsibilities ✨ - Drive squad execution and delivery velocity across 1–2 product squads, establishing clear metrics to ensure predictable, high-impact releases. - Lead technical domain strategy by actively challenging architectural choices, Product roadmap, driving complex backend refactoring, and restructuring technical debt. - Dig into delivery and technical bottlenecks with a true "hands-on" mindset - understanding system design, architecture, and performance metrics without needing to write daily production code. - Recruit, mentor, and elevate a team of senior software developers (6 to 10 FTE), raising the technical bar and fostering high-accountability engineering practices. - Unblock complex organizational and technical dependencies across Product, Sales, and Enterprise integration teams, acting as a high-agency owner. - Co-construct technical roadmaps in close partnership with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineering Leadership to align engineering strategy with business growth. ### About you 🧑‍🚀 - Diploma ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical domain. - Confirmed experiences in engineering management with a focus on handling scaling milestones within hyper-growth companies product companies or scale-ups environment. - Strong engineering curiosity and system design; you bring the technical depth to challenge estimates, audit architectural trade-offs, and diagnose performance drops beyond surface-level reporting. - Lead gradual organizational transitions and build trust, combined with genuine, ongoing technical curiosity; you still enjoy actively testing technologies, reading, and exploring topics - Languages: Native level in English. ### How to join the mission? 🚀 - First call with [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-hidasi-8792a2113/), 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheljean/) (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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairelebarz/) (CTO) to discuss Malt’s long-term vision (interview at the Paris office) We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.