Senior Java/Kotlin Developer at Malt: job opportunity in Paris

About

Malt is Europe's leading freelancing platform with one clear mission: to give people the freedom to choose who they work with. Co-founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet, Malt is a tech company with a human approach that helps companies and freelancers make the perfect match.

Malt is a marketplace that embraces a community of over 800,000 freelancers and over 70,000 clients, ranging from Small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. We’re more than just a connector. Our marketplace streamlines freelancer-client communications, simplifies administrative and legal tasks, expedites invoicing and payments, and so much more. It’s all about giving both freelancers and companies choice and added peace of mind so that every experience on Malt is nothing less than (inter)stellar.

Malt is also…

a tech company with a human approach
a company with a strong culture fueled by 700 Malters from 40+ nationalities, working from 9 countries all around Europe - Germany, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Netherlands, Nordic countries, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
committed to creating a safe and inclusive space where every employee can thrive both personally and professionally.
committed to equality and diversity (50% of people managers are women)
a company with strong career path policies allowing all Malters to develop and grow equally
backed by renowned investors including ISAI, Serena, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI France

Join us on Planet Malt, we need you to help us write this next chapter!🪐

Job Description

🪐 Discover our galaxy

Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 700,000 talented freelancers with 70,000+ 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! 🪐

Explore your future career 🔭

You’ll go beyond coding, you’ll apply your product-centric mindset. You'll be instrumental in shaping features from conception to deployment, ensuring they align with our users' needs and our business goals.

As a Senior Fullstack engineer at Malt, you will join a specialized squad (composed of Software engineers, Product Designer and Product Manager). Each squad is responsible for a specific business domain and will handle the full development cycle.

You can read more about the work of the Engineering team in our blog.

Key responsibilities ✨

As a Java/Kotlin Developer, you will integrate one of our product squads, composed of 4/5 engineers, a product manager, and a product designer. Your team will work in autonomy on a part of our product.

You will be responsible for all aspects of the development: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support.

Beyond the technical mastery, your ability to understand the business, propose improvements and your sense of detail will directly contribute to your success

We are looking for a person who is communicative, curious and eager to improve and to help others to improve

Our Tech Stack

Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Internal Design System, Stencil.js

Backend : Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis

Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI

Mobile: Swift, Kotlin

Data: Big Query, Looker, Spark, Python

We practice continuous integration and delivery, we update Malt around 70 times per week in production. We intensively use Datadog for production monitoring and alerting.

Life @Malt

Remote Culture: Strong remote culture with most of the team working full-remote throughout Europe.

Guild Days: Technical guilds: Practice sharing, continuous training, experimentation and technology watch.

Tech Conferences: Annual Malt Tech Days, organized and presented by Malt’s engineering team. Opportunity to attend major tech conferences.

Career Path: Detailed career path allowing you to set achievable objectives and progress over time.

About you 🧑‍🚀

6+ years of professional software development experience

You have significant experience in Java or Kotlin

Understanding data modelling, database fundamentals, API design, caching and architecture patterns

You are not only driven by technical challenges. You master a pragmatic development approach

You are using best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring

You are interested in approaches around good practices of coding (clean code, DDD, scalability, security...)

You are used to working with non-technical stakeholders

You can discuss and challenge topics around timing, production, delivery, business impact, roadmap...

Fluent in spoken and written English- "it is our business language"

How to join the mission? 🚀

Screening with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer your questions (45 minutes)

Interview with one of our Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and the role in more detail (75 minutes)

Technical Home assignment to prepare and present in order to evaluate your hard skills

Final interview with Jean (VP Engineering) to discuss Malt’s long term vision (45 minutes)

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

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.

Senior Java/Kotlin Developer

Malt is hiring!