Tech Lead, Product Engineering

You'll lead Volta's product engineering team and you'll still be one of the people writing the code. You'll own how we build and ship the product our enterprise customers use every day: Smart Inbox, the order and quote platform, the back-office UI. You report directly to the CTO, and you lead a small team of about 3 engineers (Python backend, web frontend).

Lead hands-on: you write and review code every week and lead by example first

Own delivery quality: a testing culture (unit, integration, end to end where it pays), code review standards that are actually applied, and a definition of done that includes tests and observability

Ship continuously: release to production yourself and make it safe for the team to do the same (small changes, feature flags, fast rollback). Every feature that reaches production gets a short note to the company

Plan with product: be the technical counterpart of the product manager, break down the roadmap, estimate honestly, flag trade-offs early, and run the team's day-to-day project management (well-scoped Jira tickets, sprint planning, visible delivery)

Grow the team: mentor engineers at very different levels, from a strong senior backend architect to a junior engineer

Build for enterprise: SSO and MFA, permissions, audit trails, performance on large tenants, per-customer feature flags

Product mindset everywhere: understand how sales back-office operators actually work, use the product yourself, and care about the details

Senior engineer turned tech lead, still shipping: 5+ years of engineering, 2+ as tech lead of a product team, hands-on today

Full-stack product engineer: strong Python backend, and comfortable enough in a modern web frontend to review, unblock and ship

Shipped B2B product: built features people use all day at work, and owned what happened after release

Raised the bar before: introduced testing practices, CI quality gates, review standards or a release process in a team that didn't have them, and made it stick

Mentor: has grown junior engineers and worked as a peer with senior ones

Must have: strong Python backend experience on production systems; solid web frontend experience (TypeScript with Angular, React or similar); strong testing practice and CI/CD; continuous delivery (deploying to production yourself, feature flags, rollback, post-release monitoring); enterprise-grade B2B SaaS features (SSO with SAML/OIDC, MFA, role-based permissions, audit logging, performance on large tenants); system design for multi-tenant SaaS; clear technical communication in English; hands-on project management for a small team (Jira tickets, sprint planning); daily use of AI-based development tools with the judgment to know where AI adds value

Nice to have: Angular; Odoo or other ERP-style frameworks; shipped live product features built on LLMs; Kubernetes, AWS and observability (Grafana, Loki); order management, wholesale or distribution domain; Italian or French; people management experience (not the core of the role: the role can be technical leadership only)

Location: Milan or Paris, hybrid, 3 office days a week

Screen with the Chief of Staff (30 min): scope, seniority, motivation

Technical deep dive with the CTO and a senior engineer from the product team (60 min): system design, plus how you run a team: reviews, testing, shipping to production

Culture and founder conversation (45 min), including a short chat with the product manager you'll plan with