Senior Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager who owns 1–2 high-impact product squads, driving delivery, technical strategy, architecture, and team growth in a hyper-growth scale-up.
About this role
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 understand your background, aspirations, and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes)
Interview with your future manager, Jean (VP engineering), to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes)
Product case and debrief with PM, Design & EM to explore how you collaborate with stakeholders, manage conflicts, delivery, and innovation
Technical case and debrief with staff engineers to validate your mastery of technical and architectural subjects
Final interview with Claire (CTO) to discuss Malt’s long-term vision (interview at the Paris office)
We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.
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