Senior Engineering Manager

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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! 🪐

Explore your future career 🔭As Malt accelerates its international expansion, you will drive the engineering transformation required to support complex, top-down Enterprise capabilities. In this role, you will take full ownership of the delivery, technical efficiency, and growth of 1–2 high-impact product squads (8–10 engineers). You will shape system architecture strategy—leading core decoupling initiatives—while elevating delivery standards and empowering your team to scale.

Key responsibilities ✨: Drive squad execution and delivery velocity across 1–2 product squads, establishing clear metrics to ensure predictable, high-impact releases. Lead technical domain strategy by actively challenging architectural choices, Product roadmap, driving complex backend refactoring, and restructuring technical debt. Dig into delivery and technical bottlenecks with a true "hands-on" mindset - understanding system design, architecture, and performance metrics without needing to write daily production code. Recruit, mentor, and elevate a team of senior software developers (6 to 10 FTE), raising the technical bar and fostering high-accountability engineering practices. Unblock complex organizational and technical dependencies across Product, Sales, and Enterprise integration teams, acting as a high-agency owner. Co-construct technical roadmaps in close partnership with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineering Leadership to align engineering strategy with business growth.

About you 🧑‍🚀: Diploma ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical domain. Confirmed experiences in engineering management with a focus on handling scaling milestones within hyper-growth companies product companies or scale-ups environment. Strong engineering curiosity and system design; you bring the technical depth to challenge estimates, audit architectural trade-offs, and diagnose performance drops beyond surface-level reporting. Lead gradual organizational transitions and build trust, combined with genuine, ongoing technical curiosity; you still enjoy actively testing technologies, reading, and exploring topics Languages: Native level in English.

How to join the mission? 🚀: First call with Alex , our Talent Acquisition Business Partner, to better under