Engineering Director - Staffing

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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! 🪐

At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

Explore your future career  🔭

As an Engineering Director, you are the leader, overseeing the delivery, performance, and people management for the Matching and Sourcing squads, composed of 8-10 product engineers  This is a direct leadership role, not a manager-of-managers position, where you will maintain a strategic and product mindset while keeping a love for the software craft. 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 ✨

• Architect the future of AI-native sourcing: Traditional staffing is broken; you will lead the development of the AI-native solution that fixes it. You aren’t just making UI tweaks, you are leveraging AI to build a high-signal, "magic" experience for hundreds of thousands of users across Europe.




• Lead Product Delivery: Translate C-level ambition into a high-velocity technical roadmap. You are the guardian of our standards, making the hard calls between shipping "wow" AI features today and maintaining the long-term architectural health of the platform. 




• Drive Engineering Excellence : As a hands-on leader, you serve as a force multiplier for quality. Through architectural guidance and deep participation in code reviews, you ensure that speed never compromises system stability or elegant design.




• Cultivate Product Engineers : Directly lead two high-impact squads by fostering a culture of autonomy. Your mission is to coach developers into Product Engineers problem solvers who understand the "why" behind the code and take extreme ownership of the user outcome.




• Drive Operational Excellence: Refine our agile rituals to ensure maximum flow. You thrive on turning complex constraints into clear paths forward, ensuring your squads remain unblocked, focused, and obsessed with delivery.

About you 🧑‍🚀

• You bring significant experience as a manager who remains rooted in the craft. You stay close to the stack to provide high-signal mentorship through architectural design and complex Merge Request.



• You have moved beyond AI theory. Having built AI agents or integrated LLMs into functional products, you understand the architecture required to scale intelligent engines.




• You know that "perfect" is the enemy of "shipped." You excel at balancing market urgency with software integrity, taking full ownership of the delivery lifecycle.




• You build environments, not just task lists. You excel at coaching both software and ML engineers to move from a "feature builder" mindset to a "problem solver" reality.




• You come from a product-first background. You think first about the "why" and then the "how" and view code as a powerful means to a business end.




• You are a natural owner. Whether facing staffing gaps or shifting priorities, you identify the path forward and rally the team to execute without needing a map.




• Fluent in English (French is a bonus), you distill complex AI or technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders at every level.

How to join the mission? 🚀

• First 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 Malt’s long-term vision (interview at the Paris office)

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫

- 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 (Wellpass) 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

Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐 

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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