--- title: 'Staff Engineer Platform at Malt' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-platform-malt-paris-0acf6b21yz9a' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Staff Engineer Platform at Malt - **Company:** Malt - **Location:** Paris, France - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/malt/3b42cb46-16ed-4389-b179-b2c58c6f6b9b ## 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? - 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. - 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). - Technical Business Case & Debrief (2h): Practical architecture exercise and debrief with Staff Engineers to evaluate your systems design and agentic architecture mastery. - 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/) ## About Malt ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Malt is a European freelance marketplace that connects businesses with vetted freelancers and provides integrated administrative, legal, and payment tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (scale-up; ~$195.3M total funding across 5 rounds) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet; freelance/independent talent marketplace - **Target customers**: B2B — from SMBs to enterprise companies; also serves independent freelancers and consultants - **Mission**: "Create a world where everyone is free to choose the best people to work with." Malt aims to redefine the world of work by giving people the freedom to choose what work they do and who they do it with. ## Products & Services - **Malt Marketplace**: The core platform connecting freelancers with companies. It covers a wide range of categories including tech, design, marketing, consulting, and more, with tools for project matching, collaboration, and secure payments. - **Malt Strategy**: A dedicated category for independent management consultants and interim executives, launched after Malt acquired Comatch in 2022. Clients can access vetted senior expertise. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$195.3M** across 5 rounds; reported annual revenue of **$441.5M**; over **1 million freelancers** and **90,000+ clients** per LinkedIn data - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Specific investor names were not detailed in the provided sources. Notable strategic move: acquisition of **Comatch** in 2022 to enter the management consulting/interim executive category. - **Growth Signals**: - Active in 9 countries/regions: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE, and the UK - 100% revenue growth reported for 2021 vs. 2022 - Workforce of ~1,079 people, up 6.8% YoY - Growing freelancer community: from 700,000+ to 1 million+ depending on source timeframe ## Competitive Advantages - **Strong network effects**: A large and growing two-sided marketplace (freelancers + companies) makes each side more valuable to the other. - **European scale**: Deep multi-country presence gives Malt a regional advantage over local or fragmented competitors. - **Integrated admin, legal, and payment processes**: Malt simplifies compliance and payments for freelancers and companies, reducing friction in independent work arrangements. - **Trust and vetted talent**: Particularly in senior consulting categories through Malt Strategy, supported by the Comatch acquisition. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding across Europe and the Middle East (UAE presence) - Growing enterprise and global account business, evidenced by recent hires for Enterprise and Key Account roles - Investing in AI and automation to improve matching and internal efficiency - Building a more complete platform for freelancers and companies, including financial, legal, and project management support - Maintaining a strong, inclusive, and scalable company culture as headcount grows ## Why Work Here - **Culture & diversity**: Malt emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Women make up 51.2% of the workforce and 40.9% of leadership; employees represent 31+ nationalities. The company scored 85/100 on France’s 2025 Gender Equality Index. - **Work model**: Flexible remote/hybrid policy — split time between the office and home. Onboarding in Paris for new hires. - **Perks**: Competitive benefits include equity for all employees, free books for learning, a one-month fully paid sabbatical every three years, sports sponsorship, and additional vacation days depending on country. - **Hiring process**: Average process lasts ~28 working days; offers follow within 48 hours. English is required as Malt works mostly in English across Europe. - **Growth environment**: Hybrid team across six countries to work from, with a rapid scale-up environment focused on autonomy, smart risks, and continuous improvement. ## Sources 1. [careers.malt.com](https://careers.malt.com/) 2. [malt.com](https://www.malt.com/c/about-us) 3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/malt) 4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/maltcommunity) 5. 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