Staff Engineer Platform
RemoteParis, Île-de-France, France or Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Job Summary
Define the 2–3 year technical vision and roadmap for Malt's engineering platform, ensuring architectural consistency across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure. Architect shared foundations and agentic workflows that consolidate existing POCs into unified, enterprise-grade capabilities. Prototype, scale, and embed autonomous AI agents into the software development lifecycle to enable agentic MR reviews, automated code quality, and security fixes. Contribute directly to production code on the systems you design, including the hardest parts and reference implementations. Drive adoption of best practices, coding standards, and high-quality engineering processes while mentoring Senior and mid-level engineers. Act as a technical catalyst to align backend, frontend, and engineering leads around transformative AI agent paradigms.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- Proven track record operating at a Staff or Principal level in high-scale platform environments
- High proficiency in Kotlin or Java
- Comfort across GCP and modern web frameworks (e.g. Nuxt/VueJS)
- Ease navigating complex backend architecture, APIs, and data models
- Product-grade agentic workflows within the software development lifecycle
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- French language ability (valuable bonus)
Desired Qualifications
- Passion for AI topics and keeping up to date with the latest developments
- Experience building product-grade agentic workflows within the software development lifecycle (systems engineers rely on daily to review, test, or ship code, not demos or POCs)
- Experience working effectively in uncertain and evolving environments
- Thinking beyond the code with a product mindset for developer experience
- Curiosity about the why behind workflows and core components
- Proactivity in proposing improvements
- Ownership of delivery from A to Z including adoption
- Resourcefulness under severe staffing constraints
- Excellent ownership and problem-solving skills
- High degree of agency in driving solutions
- Experience mentoring Senior and mid-level engineers
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