Company Description

✨ About Voyage Privé

Born in France in 2006, Voyage Privé has grown from an ambitious startup into becoming 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 have reached this scale by staying fully independent, fully profitable, and achieving double-digit growth.

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

Job Description

Your Mission

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate at org‑level, shaping the technical direction of multiple domains and raising engineering standards across the organization. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data, and Tech teams to deliver measurable impact and help us scale reliably and efficiently.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Architect the Future: Design distributed, stateless, and scalable systems that are resilient to failure and aligned with long‑term business and technical strategy.
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

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

Additional Information

⚡ 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!

Staff Software Engineer – Full Remote or Hybrid (m/f/d) at Voyage Privé