Staff Engineer Platform

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! 🪐 *At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.* ### **Explore your future career** You will join the Platform team, the foundational engine driving the Malt marketplace across our backend (Kotlin/Java), frontend (Nuxt/VueJS), and GCP cloud infrastructure. Your mission is to define and drive the long-term technical vision for that platform: the shared foundations, tooling, and internal infrastructure that every engineering squad builds on, and the agentic workflows that will change how we ship software. Both matter equally - a strong agentic layer only compounds on solid platform foundations, and our foundations only stay relevant if they make autonomous workflows a first-class citizen. Either way, the goal is the same: multiply the output of everyone who touches our product, reliably and securely, at Malt scale. ### 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). ### How to join the mission? 1. **Initial Screening Call (45m):** First exchange with [**Olivier Lachenaud**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-lachenaud-568b47153/) (Talent Acquisition Business Partner) to explore your background, career aspirations, and answer any initial questions. 2. **Manager Interview (60m):** Deep dive into your technical background, domain experience, and alignment with [**Anaïs Ghelfi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana%C3%AFs-ghelfi-50382397/) (Hiring Manager & Engineering Director). 3. **Technical Business Case & Debrief (2h):** Practical architecture exercise and debrief with Staff Engineers to evaluate your systems design and agentic architecture mastery. 4. **Executive & Culture Fit Interview (2h):** Final conversation with [**Claire**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairelebarz/) (CTO) to discuss Malt’s long-term vision, followed by an informal coffee chat with **Raphaël Ouazana** & [**Pierre Reynaud**.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-reynaud-04035490/)