Staff Software Engineer (Travel Tech)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems): Designing and scaling distributed, stateless systems for a leading travel tech platform with an accent on asynchronous architectures and message-driven patterns. Focus on improving system latency, ensuring data consistency, and mentoring senior engineers to raise organizational engineering standards.

Location: Aix-en-Provence, France or Remote (likely France/Europe)

Company

Europe’s leading travel tech platform revolutionizing online luxury travel through a high-performance digital ecosystem.

What you will do

• Design distributed, stateless, and scalable systems aligned with long-term business and technical strategy.
• Actively contribute to the codebase by prototyping and implementing critical features.
• Leverage asynchronous architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS to improve latency and decoupling.
• Define and implement patterns for data consistency, message ordering, and reliable state transitions.
• Mentor engineers across teams to level up organizational capabilities and embed technical excellence.
• Drive modernization strategies to reduce technical debt and improve system agility and reliability.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering robust, mission-critical distributed systems in production.
• Expertise in asynchronous processing and message-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Deep technical fluency in system design, performance tuning, concurrency, and consistency models.
• Strong coding skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Fluent in English & French.
• Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and guiding architectural decisions at the org level.

Culture & Benefits

• Modern, eco-responsible campus in the South of France.
• Flexible work: Full remote for selected roles or a hybrid model (3 mandatory on-site days).
• On-site fitness center and private padel court.
• Vibrant corporate culture with Company Breaks, Carnival, and annual conventions.
• Up to 20% discount on exclusive luxury travel getaway offers.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with a Talent Acquisition Partner.
• Discussion with the Hiring Manager including a short live coding exercise.
• Live Coding & System Design interviews.
• Final interview with the Chief Digital Officer to align on long-term impact.