Malt

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1 month ago
Paris, France or Lyon, FranceStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive Malt’s 2–3 year technical vision and roadmap for the engineering platform across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and agentic capabilities.
  • Design and build company-wide platform foundations in partnership with Backend, Frontend, and SRE leads.
  • Prototype, scale, and embed autonomous AI agents into software development lifecycle workflows such as merge-request reviews, code quality, testing, and security fixes.
  • Deliver the platform as a product through self-service tools, reusable components, guardrails, documentation, and developer experience improvements.
  • Write production code for complex platform systems and reference implementations.
  • Drive engineering standards, architecture reviews, code quality, operational excellence, and platform adoption.
  • Mentor and coach platform engineers, including Senior and mid-level engineers.
  • Align engineering and technical leads around platform strategy and agentic development paradigms.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven experience operating at Staff or Principal level in high-scale platform environments.
  • High proficiency in Kotlin or Java.
  • Experience with GCP and modern web frameworks such as Nuxt and VueJS.
  • Strong understanding of complex backend architecture, APIs, and data models.
  • Experience building product-grade agentic workflows used regularly by engineers to review, test, or ship code.
  • Ability to define technical strategy, own delivery from architecture through adoption, and work effectively amid uncertainty and staffing constraints.
  • Strong ownership, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
  • Fluent written and spoken English; French is a valuable bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work policy balancing office and home working.
  • First-week onboarding at the Paris office with other new joiners.
  • Stock options for every employee.
  • €9 per working day in lunch vouchers.
  • 50% reimbursement of transportation costs.
  • Healthcare insurance.
  • 8 to 12 RTT days off per year.
  • Company participation in a Gymlib (Wellpass) membership.
  • One month of fully paid sabbatical leave every three years.
  • Free books relevant to Malt’s business.
  • Annual team-building events.
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1,001-5,000 employees
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