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

About Voyage Privé

Voyage Privé is Europe's leading travel tech platform, founded in France in 2006. Operating across 9 markets with millions of users, we are a tech company revolutionizing online travel. Our mission-driven culture combines performance with impact, fostering an ecosystem where digital innovation drives business growth and positive change. We are fully independent, profitable, and experiencing double-digit growth. Currently, we are undertaking a significant technical transformation, upgrading our cloud architecture, AI capabilities, and real-time systems to become a global reference in luxury travel.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate at an organizational level, influencing the technical direction across multiple domains and elevating engineering standards. You will collaborate closely with Product, Data, and Tech teams to deliver measurable impact and ensure our systems scale reliably and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, leading by example with 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 service decoupling.
• 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, enhance engineering capabilities, and foster 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 to improve system agility, performance, and reliability.
• Partner for Impact: Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product, and Infrastructure teams to influence roadmaps and shape a pragmatic, scalable architecture vision.

Requirements

We are looking for builders who move fast, think big, and are passionate about creating lasting impact.

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, including metrics, logs, traces, incident handling, and root cause analysis.
• Fluent in English. (French fluency is a plus).

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 organizational level.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without ego, and coach others through technical complexity.

What We Offer

• Work Model: Full remote or hybrid options available. Our French HQ offers an exceptional environment with a modern, eco-responsible campus. For remote roles, you can work from anywhere. For hybrid roles, there are 3 mandatory on-site days per week, with 4 fully remote weeks per year.
• Contract: Full-time, Permanent.
• Impactful Work: Join a unique ecosystem connecting business, sports, education, and social impact through various projects.
• Well-being: Access to a large on-site fitness center and a private padel court.
• Company Culture: Participate in Company Breaks, Carnival, Annual Conventions, meetups, and talks. Enjoy free tickets to Provence Rugby home matches and live music nights.
• Travel Perks: Benefit from up to 20% off exclusive getaway offers.