Senior Engineering Manager

Team: Software Engineers

Location: Paris, Lyon

Commitment: FR Executive/Cadre

Workplace Type: hybrid

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.