Staff Software Engineer

Context

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Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 freelancers with 100,000+ companies. A team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries. Lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

Key responsibilities

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• Lead, plan, and drive the execution of large, complex, and sometimes high-risk engineering projects that often span across multiple teams or systems.
  
• Architectural design: design, develop, and implement scalable, efficient, and robust software solutions and systems.
  
• Set technical vision: define the short-term and long-term technical strategy and roadmap for a critical area, domain, or the organization's technology infrastructure.
  
• Raise the bar: drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes, including thorough code reviews; provide architectural guidance and foster operational excellence.
  
• Mentorship and coaching: provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, particularly Senior and mid-level engineers.
  
• Coordination and alignment: act as a glue person, coordinating technical efforts and communication across multiple squads, departments, and stakeholders (Product Managers, Engineering Managers).
  
• Influence the engineering culture: champion ownership, excellence, and speed.
  

About you

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• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, with a first experience in a product company (SaaS, fintech, marketplace).
  
• Highly proficient in Java or Kotlin, comfortable navigating complex backend architecture, APIs, and data models.
  
• Passionate about AI topics, up to date with the latest developments; you have already worked on AI topics, for internal productivity or in a product.
  
• Clear leadership: you work effectively in uncertain and evolving environments, managing the interaction between technical objectives and business priorities.
  
• Technical mentor: strong craft skills to disseminate best practices and coach classic developers or ML engineers.
  
• Product mindset: curious about the why behind features, proactive in proposing improvements, owning delivery from A to Z.
  
• Resourceful under severe staffing constraints; excellent ownership and problem-solving skills, high degree of agency.
  
• Excellent written and oral communication in English (French is a valuable bonus).
  

Recruitment process

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2. First call with the Talent Acquisition Business Partner: background, aspirations, questions (45 minutes).
   
3. Interview with the future manager (VP Engineering): experience and specifics of the role (60 minutes).
   
4. Technical case and debrief with staff engineers: mastery of technical and architectural subjects (2 hours).
   
5. Final interview with the CTO on Malt's long-term vision, at the Paris office.
   

Conditions

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• Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office (Paris); first week of onboarding at the Paris office.
  
• Equity: every Malter is entitled to stock options.
  
• Lunch vouchers: €9/day on Swile card; 50% transportation reimbursement; healthcare insurance.
  
• RTT: 8 to 12 days off per year; company participation to a Gymlib (Wellpass) membership.
  
• Malt sabbatical: every three years, a one-month fully paid sabbatical leave.
  
• Free books on topics relevant to Malt's business, without approval process; team building events every year.
  
• Note: the profile may be subject to background screening. xuezdbg
  

Ce qui te ferait sortir du lot (côté sécurité)

Zeroday : sur un poste comme celui-ci, ce qui fait la différence côté sécurité —

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• penser l'autorisation objet par objet : un freelance ne doit accéder qu'à ses propres missions, même si l'API répond correctement pour d'autres identifiants ;
  
• valider les entrées au plus près des règles du domaine (montants, statuts, identifiants), pas seulement côté front ;
  
• suivre les dépendances des services Java et Kotlin : une bibliothèque vulnérable exposée est une dette de sécurité, pas une tâche de fond ;
  
• garder secrets et données personnelles hors du code et des journaux : la base d'une place de marché est son actif le plus sensible.