Senior Engineering Manager - Staffing

Summary

Join Malt, Europe's leading freelance marketplace, as a Senior Engineering Manager and play a key role in leading the Matching and Sourcing squads. You will oversee product delivery, team performance, and talent development, focusing on AI search and ATS improvements. This role requires significant management experience, strong technical skills, and a product mindset. You will collaborate with various teams to define and implement technical strategies. Malt offers a dynamic, growth-oriented environment with numerous benefits.

Requirements

• A significant experience as a hands-on Manager : You enjoy being part of code review, MR, architecture discussion and technical quality
• 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 developers
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the core of Malt: Leverage LLM to build the best end-to-end sourcing experience and enable clients to find the top freelancers in Europe
• Lead Product Delivery: Oversee the successful delivery and efficiency of 2 product squads, ensuring that we release valuable features to our users swiftly and effectively
• Optimize Team Performance: Drive team speed and productivity by implementing effective organizational rituals and promoting sound technological practices
• Develop and Grow Talent: Recruit, manage, and empower a team of 4 to 10 senior developers, providing continuous coaching, feedback, and support for their professional growth and success
• Problem Solver & Facilitator: Act as the primary point of contact for your teams, proactively managing dependencies (both organizational and technical) and resolving any obstacles that could hinder team delivery
• Strategic Collaborator: Partner closely with product managers, tech leads, other senior engineering managers, and staff engineers to understand, co-construct, and effectively communicate the team's product strategy

Benefits

• Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll 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) : €9/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 membership
• Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave
• Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow
• Remote work: Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office
• Team building events organized every year