Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Voyage Privé, a leading European travel tech platform, as a Staff Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in their large-scale digital transformation. Architect and build robust, scalable, and resilient systems using cutting-edge technologies like Kafka and RabbitMQ. Actively contribute to the codebase, mentor engineers, and champion best practices in software development. Shape the engineering culture, processes, and future leaders while working in a high-trust, low-politics environment. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a fast-growing company and be part of a mission-driven team.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

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

Benefits

• Remote work possible based on location and experience
• Competitive compensation and a mission-driven team ready to build the future of digital travel
• Access our large Campus gym morning, noon and night, and play Padel whenever you like on our court reserved exclusively for Voyage Privé employees
• Live to the rhythm of Voyage Privé's various Business & Fun highlights (Company Breaks, Carnival, Annual Convention...), take part in meetups and talks, and enjoy free tickets to every Provence Rugby home match or dance to the sounds of the Dalida Institute!
• Would you like to take advantage of our getaway offers? Benefit from up to 20% off our irresistible prices