Staff Engineer Platform

Job description

🪐 Discover our galaxy 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! 🪐 At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive. Key responsibilities Set the Long-Term Platform Tech Strategy: Define the 2–3 year technical vision and roadmap for Malt's engineering platform — backend, frontend — alongside platform leads, ensuring architectural consistency, security, and high reliability across all engineering squads. Agentic capabilities are a central pillar of that vision, not a side project. Architect Platform Foundations: Partner closely with Backend, Frontend, and SRE leads to design and build our company-wide platform foundations — from core shared infrastructure through to our agentic layer, consolidating existing POCs into unified, enterprise-grade capabilities. Pioneer Agentic DevEx Workflows: Prototype, scale, and embed autonomous AI agents into the software development lifecycle (e.g., agentic MR reviews, automated code quality, and security fixes) so product teams can focus strictly on core product logic. Deliver Platform-as-a-Product: Provide product engineers with self-service tools, reusable components, clear guardrails, and documentation making both our platform foundations and our autonomous workflows the natural, default way to ship software at Malt. Build, Hands-On: Contribute directly to the platform. You'll write production code on the systems you design: the hardest parts, the reference implementations, the things nobody else can unblock. Raise the Bar: Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes, including thorough code and architecture reviews. Foster operational excellence across the platform. Mentor and Coach: Provide technical guidance…