Staff Software Engineer

Born in France in 2006, Voyage Privé has grown from an ambitious startup into becoming the Europe's leading travel tech platform. Operating across 9 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? 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 both business growth and positive change.  

We're now at an inflection point, upgrading our entire technical foundation with cloud architecture, AI, and real-time systems to become a reference and top-of-mind platform for luxury travel, known by travelers for its for excellent offer and customer experience, and by our providers as a high-performance business development partner. 

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.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• 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

What We're Looking For

We're looking for builders who move fast, think big, and care deeply about creating impact that lasts.

Your profile:

• 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

Our Recruitment Process

We believe in a fast, transparent, and human recruitment process.

Here's what you can expect:

• 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 

You'll Love Joining Us

Our HQ in the South of France offers an exceptional environment — natural, cultural, and digital — on a modern and eco-responsible campus.

Prefer flexibility?  We offer 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.

Put meaning back into your work and join a unique ecosystem that connects worlds often far apart: business, sports, education, and social impact — through projects like Ecole des XV, Provence Rugby, VP Green, Les Tremplins, and Chez Pierre.

Forget your gym subscription Access our large on-site fitness center morning, noon, and night — or challenge your colleagues to a padel match on our private court.

Live to the rhythm of Voyage Privé's signature mix of business and fun: Company Breaks, Carnival, Annual Convention, meetups and talks… plus free tickets to every Provence Rugby home match and live music nights at the Dalida Institute.

And because travel is in our DNA : enjoy up to 20% off our exclusive getaway offers.

Join us and make your next career move a journey worth taking.