Staff Software Engineer

Malt

full-time

Posted on: 10/10/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇫🇷 France

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JavaKotlin

About the role

Lead High-Impact Projects: Lead, plan, and drive the execution of large, complex, and sometimes high-risk engineering projects that often span multiple teams or systems.
Architectural Design: Design, develop, and implement scalable, efficient, and robust software solutions and systems.
Set Technical Vision: Define the short-term and long-term technical strategy and roadmap for a critical area, domain, or the organization’s technology infrastructure.
Raise the Bar: Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes, including conducting thorough code reviews. Provide architectural guidance and foster operational excellence.
Mentorship and Coaching: Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, particularly senior and mid-level engineers, to help them develop their skills and advance their careers.
Coordination and Alignment: Act as a “glue” person, coordinating technical efforts and communication across multiple squads, departments, and stakeholders (e.g., Product Managers, Engineering Managers).
Influence Engineering Culture: Champion and cultivate a strong engineering culture that prioritizes ownership, excellence, and speed.

Technical Expertise: 10+ years of professional experience in software development, with initial experience in a product company (SaaS, fintech, marketplace, etc.). Highly proficient in Java or Kotlin and comfortable navigating complex backend architectures, APIs, and data models.
AI‑Driven Innovator: Passionate about AI and regularly up to date with the latest developments. Experience working on AI-related topics, whether for internal productivity tools or as part of a product.
Clear Leadership: Able to work effectively in uncertain and evolving environments, managing the interplay between technical objectives and business priorities.
Technical Mentor: Strong technical and craft skills, enabling you to disseminate best practices within the team and provide valuable coaching to traditional developers and ML engineers.
Product Mindset: Think beyond code; curious about the “why” behind features, proactive in proposing improvements, and take ownership of delivery from end to end.
Resourceful: Consistently find ways to get things done, even under tight staffing constraints.
Impactful: Demonstrate strong ownership and problem-solving skills, with a high degree of agency in driving solutions.
Strong Interpersonal Abilities: Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English (French is a plus).

Benefits

Onboarding: Your first week will be dedicated to learning our culture, products, and services alongside other new hires at our Paris office.
Equity: All Malters are eligible for stock options.
Lunch vouchers: €9/day loaded to your Swile card.
Transportation: 50% reimbursement (for any mode of transport).
RTT: Between 8 and 12 additional days off.
Malt sabbatical: After three years, all Malters are entitled to a one-month paid sabbatical.
Free books: If you want to learn more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, tell us which books you’d like and we’ll order them—no questions or approval processes.
Remote work: Full remote or hybrid from one of our offices (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Lille, Marseille).
Annual team-building events.

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

JavaKotlinbackend architectureAPIsdata modelsAIsoftware developmentcoding standardscode reviewsengineering processes

leadershipmentorshipcoachingcommunicationproblem-solvingownershipresourcefulnessadaptabilityinterpersonal skillsproactive mindset