Senior Engineering Manager - Payment

🪐 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! 🪐 Explore your future career 🔭 As our Senior Engineering Manager - Payment, your mission is to own the payment strategy for the product engineering team. You are taking care of the performance, productivity, and innovation in this scope. You are a hands-on manager; you are close to the topics your teams are handling, iterate on your scope with your team and challenge them to always optimize user experience and deliver value. Furthermore, you are someone energized by removing obstacles, streamlining processes, and enabling your team to deliver exceptional results while supporting their professional growth and overall well-being. Key responsibilities ✨ • Lead and inspire a high-performing team You’ll manage 1 product squad (6 to 10 engineers), creating the conditions for them to thrive: clear direction, strong rituals, and a collaborative culture. You foster alignment through regular team moments, stand-ups, retros, and workshops and care deeply about team morale and engagement. • Co-build product and technical strategy You’ll help craft the vision and strategy for the Payment & Cash Advance domain, ensuring your teams are fully aligned on goals and the path to get there. You’ll translate high-level objectives into actionable plans, and keep everyone focused on what matters most: delivering value to users. • Raise the bar on delivery and engineering excellence You’ll set and track the right KPIs to measure impact, velocity, and quality and ensure that delivery is predictable and transparent. As part of Malt’s Engineering Manager Guild, you’ll also help scale what works across the org by contributing to shared rituals, tooling, and process improvements. • Own our payments and financing ecosystem You’ll be the primary tech point of contact for our external financial partners, from PSPs to cash advance providers. You’ll ensure smooth integration, operational reliability, and long-term scalability in this core part of Malt’s product. About you 🧑‍🚀 • You’re comfortable navigating fast-paced, evolving environments. Whether it’s managing technical migrations, shifting team structures, or aligning business and tech priorities. • You’ve mastered agile methodologies, and you know how to build high-performing product teams. You’ve worked in a scale-up or hyper-growth environment, and you understand how to balance speed, scalability, and quality. • A significant experience as a senior individual contributor as backend/fullstack (ideally in java/Kotlin) You enjoy being part of code review, MR, architecture discussion, and technical quality. • You have an expertise in payment systems at scale. You understand the constraints and opportunities that come with building for this domain. • You’re someone who doesn’t wait for instructions; you act. You identify problems, propose solutions, and rally the right people to move forward. • Fluent in written and spoken English (French is a plus) • You’re able to explain complex technical or strategic topics to a range of audiences. You know that communication is what makes good teams great. • You keep an eye on emerging t