Senior Engineering Manager - Staffing
Company Overview
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Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 900,000 talented freelancers with 90,000+ 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! đȘAt Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.
Job Summary
Explore your future career đAs a Senior Engineering Manager, you are the leader, overseeing the delivery, performance, and people management for the Matching and Sourcing squads, composed of 8-10 engineers. You are in charge of the growth and development of how clients and freelancers connect on Malt. Today, they do so via the AI search (our main staffing flow) and the ATS (enabling independent selection and evaluation of freelancers), tomorrow why not a full AI experience? You play a crucial role in defining and implementing our technical strategy, driving project timelines, and fostering a high-performing and collaborative engineering environment. This is a hands-on leadership role in which you're shaping the product experience that hundreds of thousands freelancers rely on.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the core of Malt: Build the best end-to-end AI-native sourcing experience and enable clients to find the top freelancers in Europe.
- Lead Product Delivery: Partner with design, product, and C-level to define scope, prioritize, and execute projects.
- Optimize Team Performance: Maintain code quality and system reliability through active participation in code reviews, architectural guidance, and fostering operational excellence.
- Develop and Grow Talent: Provide regular feedback, mentorship, and coaching to support and develop two small engineering teams.
- Problem Solver & Facilitator: Enable planning and execution across projects. Ensure engineers remain unblocked and focused.
- Impact driven: Champion and cultivate a robust engineering culture that prioritizes ownership, excellence, and collaboration.
Requirements / Qualifications
- A significant experience as a hands-on Manager: You enjoy being part of code review, MR, architecture discussion, and technical quality.
- AIâDriven Innovator: Passionate about AI topics, you regularly keep up to date with the latest developments. You have already worked on AI agent, either professionally or as a side project.
- Clear leadership: You excel at working effectively in uncertain and evolving environments, managing the interaction between technical objectives and business priorities.
- Methodology: You possess a deep mastery of agile methodologies and best practices for organizing product development teams.
- Technical Mentor: You have strong technical and craft skills, enabling you to effectively disseminate best practices within the team and provide valuable coaching to âclassicâ developers or ML engineers.
- Product Mindset: You have previous experience working in a product company, ideally within an international context.
- Resourceful: You always find a way of getting things done, even under severe staffing constraints.
- Fluent in written and spoken English (French is a plus)
- 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).
Location
Remote (France)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, youâll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other new joiners at our office in Paris
- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options
- Lunch vouchers (legal benefit): âŹ9/day on your Swile card
- Transportation (legal benefit): 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)
- Healthcare insurance (legal benefit)
- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off per year
- Sports: Company participation to a Gymlib (Wellpass) membership
- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave
- Free books: If youâre interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Maltâs business, just tell us the books youâd like to read, and weâll order them for youâwithout any questions asked or approval processes to follow
- Remote work: Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office
- Team building events organized every year
Application Process
How to join the mission? đFirst call with Alex, 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 (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 (CTO) to discuss Maltâs long-term vision (interview at the Paris office)
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.
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