Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - Full Remote or Hybrid (m/f/d) Born in France in 2006, Voyage Privé has grown from an ambitious startup into Europe’s leading travel tech platform, operating across nine markets with tens of millions of users. We’re not just another e‑commerce success story – we’re a tech powerhouse revolutionizing online travel. What makes us unique is a mission‑driven culture where performance meets impact. Our innovative campus brings together tech talent, professional athletes, students, and artists, creating an ecosystem where digital innovation drives business growth and positive change. We’re at an inflection point, upgrading our entire technical foundation with cloud architecture, AI, and real‑time systems to become a reference platform for luxury travel, known by travelers for our excellent offer and customer experience, and by providers as a high‑performance business development partner. Job Description As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of a domain. You’ll work closely with Product, Data & Tech teams to deliver measurable impact and help us scale efficiently. Responsibilities Architect the Future: Design distributed, stateless, and scalable systems that are resilient to failure and optimized for high performance and throughput. Stay Hands‑On: Actively contribute to the codebase, prototype, implement, and review critical features. Lead by example through high‑quality, pragmatic, and scalable code. Scale What Matters: Leverage asynchronous architectures and message‑driven patterns using technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or pub/sub to improve latency, responsiveness, and decoupling of services. Ensure Consistency and Integrity: Define and implement patterns for data consistency (eventual or strong), message ordering, and reliable state transitions across services and storage layers. Be a Multiplier: Mentor engineers across teams, level up engineering capabilities, and help embed a culture of technical excellence and ownership. Raise the Bar: Promote best practices in testing, observability, continuous integration, and secure software development. Transform at Scale: Actively reduce technical debt and drive modernization strategies that improve system agility, performance, and reliability. Partner for Impact: Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product, and Infrastructure to influence roadmaps and shape a pragmatic, scalable architecture vision. Qualifications Proven experience designing and delivering robust, distributed, and mission‑critical systems in production. Expertise in asynchronous processing and message‑driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or pub/sub. Deep technical fluency in system design, performance tuning, concurrency, and consistency models. Strong coding skills in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java, Go, Python, TypeScript). Familiarity with service‑oriented and event‑driven architectures, eventual consistency strategies, and data synchronization mechanisms. Mastery of CI/CD, test automation strategies, and infrastructure‑as‑code tooling. Hands‑on experience with secure coding practices and awareness of compliance and resilience in regulated or complex environments. Strong observability mindset: metrics, logs, traces, incident handling, and root‑cause analysis. Fluent in English & French. Leadership Competencies Ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams without relying on positional authority. High judgment in balancing engineering purity with speed, business outcomes, and risk. Experience mentoring senior engineers and guiding architectural decisions at the org level. Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without ego, and coach others through technical complexity. Recruitment Process Intro Call with a Talent Acquisition Partner (30/45 min) – Get to know each other We’ll share more about the role, the team, and our culture. Live Coding Interview (60 min) System Design Interview (60 min) – Dive into real‑life scenarios or challenges to showcase your expertise and problem‑solving mindset. Final Interview (60 min) – Meet with the hiring manager and/or leadership team to align on expectations, culture, and long‑term impact. Location Aix en Provence or full remote. Start Date ASAP Contract Type Permanent contract Benefits Our HQ in the South of France offers an exceptional environment—natural, cultural, and digital—on a modern and eco‑responsible campus. Flexibility: full remote work for selected digital roles, and a hybrid model for all other positions with 3 mandatory on‑site days per week plus 4 fully remote weeks per year. Access to a large on‑site fitness center and private padel court. Company events: Company Breaks, Carnival, Annual Convention, meetups and talks, plus free tickets to Provence Rugby home matches and live music nights at the Dalida Institute. Up to 20% off exclusive getaway offers. Join us and make your next career move a journey worth taking. #J-18808-Ljbffr