Senior Software Engineer - Full Remote (France) or Hybrid

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 Software Engineer, you are a product-driven builder embedded in on of our four domains alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data and Business stakeholders.

You design, build and operate software systems that power high-traffic, business-critical travel experiences.

You don’t just ship features — you own systems end to end and contribute directly to measurable business and customer impact.

🚀 What You’ll Do

Build high-impact solutions

• Develop, test and deploy reliable, scalable software in a high-traffic environment, embedding AI-first capabilities

• Break down complex problems into pragmatic solutions that deliver value fast

• Continuously improve performance, maintainability and system reliability

Own systems end to end

• Take responsibility for design, implementation, deployment and production operations

• Participate in on-call rotations and incident resolution

• Proactively identify technical debt and improvement opportunities

• Ensure systems are observable, resilient and ready to scale

Design robust and scalable architectures

• Contribute to architecture decisions with a strong understanding of trade-offs (performance, cost, scalability, security)

• Design APIs and services that integrate smoothly within a complex travel ecosystem

• Apply security-by-design principles to protect customers and business operations

Work with a strong product & data mindset

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to align technical decisions with business goals

• Use data and feedback to validate impact and guide improvements

• Enable experimentation, iteration and continuous learning

Contribute to engineering excellence

• Uphold high standards in code quality, testing and documentation

• Actively participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing

• Help evolve engineering practices, tooling and team maturity

Qualifications

💡 What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for engineers who think in systems, care about impact, and take ownership beyond their code.

Your profile:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in at least one modern programming language

• Experience building and operating production systems

• Solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems and integrations

• Awareness of performance, scalability and security best practices

• Comfortable with testing, version control and CI/CD practices

• Product-oriented mindset and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions

• Strong ownership, autonomy and collaboration skills

• Good communication in English and French

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! We’ll share more about the role, the team, and our culture.
• Live Coding (60min)
• System Design Interview (90min) – 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, France or remote
📅 Start Date : The sooner, the better
📄 Contract Type : Full-time / Permanent 

❤️ 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. 🌍