Senior Engineering Manager
MaltFreelance Marketplace company
Paris, FranceManager
Eurazeo
Bpifrance
Goldman Sachs Growth Equity
Isai
Serena
Idinvest Partners
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Manage and grow 1-2 product squads, driving technical strategy and delivery.
- •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).
- •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.
- •Requirements 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.
- •Native level in English.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementAgileScrumProduct ManagementMentoringChange ManagementCross-functional LeadershipTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoSQLReactNode.jsDockerKubernetes
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoSQLBashReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETNestJSPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CD
