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Founding Engineer Volta software
Plateforme IA pour automatiser les workflows B2B.
Permanent
Paris
Occasional remote
80K to 100K € a year
> 5 years
Skills we're looking for
Oracle
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MS SQL Server
SQL
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You'll be part of
40 employees
Software
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
SaaS / Cloud Services
Average age: 32
Founded in 2024
Revenue: 2M€
Volta est la plateforme d’exécution IA pour la distribution B2B. Elle se connecte aux systèmes existants et déploie des agents IA pour traiter les demandes entrantes — quel que soit le canal (email, PDF, EDI, WhatsApp…) — et exécuter les workflows opérationnels, commandes, devis, service client, de bout en bout, sous le contrôle des équipes.
Fondée en 2024 entre Paris et Milan par Paul Guillemin et Mario Parteli, Volta réunit une expertise en IA, en logiciel et en distribution.
Volts a levé 11M€ auprès d’un réseau de plus de 50 investisseurs — entrepreneurs du numérique, dirigeants expérimentés du secteur et familles industrielles. Parmi eux, Pascal Houillon, ancien PDG de Cegid et de Sage, et Paolo Grue, ancien PDG de P&G, aux côtés de fonds ayant soutenu Lovable, Qonto, Datadog et Delivery Hero.
Volta aide distributeurs, grossistes, fabricants et marques à transformer des processus complexes et manuels en workflows exécutés par l’IA et supervisés par leurs équipes.
You'll be working on
You’ll be Volta’s technical leader in Paris. You’ll be the technical voice of the company, run the tech kickoff, build the first integrations yourself, and then hire and grow the FDE squad that comes after you. You report directly to the CTO, based in Italy. Think of it as the CTO role, localised to the French market: hands-on at the start, product-shaping as it scales.
Key responsibilities:
Lead engineering in France, hands-on from day one — a leadership role where the leader still ships code
Start with Connect: design and build the Python integrations connecting Volta to client systems, owning the full lifecycle from spec to go-live
Be Volta’s technical voice in France — join presales conversations to explain our architecture, data flows, and security/compliance posture to client CTOs, IT and security teams; run technical kickoffs
Own the customer relationship as the technical counterpart, from first call through go-live and beyond
Go wide on the product once Connect is under control — real say in what we build for the French market, and the license to build it yourself
Grow the team — hire, onboard and lead the engineers who follow; define how the team works in France
We're looking for
Must have:
5+ years building backend systems in modern Python for production-critical workloads, and still hands-on today — not someone who’s moved into pure management
Experience integrating enterprise systems you didn’t own and couldn’t change (ERP, WMS, PIM, EDI, or other legacy enterprise systems) — missing sandboxes, weak documentation, a vendor between you and the API
Product engineering experience, not just integrations or pipelines — you’ve built core or user-facing product too
Strong SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, or Oracle) and comfort with messy, real-world data
Strong system design and distributed systems knowledge — you can design components and backend patterns that scale without scaling the team linearly, and defend those choices to a client’s architects
Real client exposure — you’ve run technical conversations with enterprise customers, not just internal stakeholders, and can run a kickoff or handle a security questionnaire in French
Some leadership history — led a small team, a squad, or been the technical anchor others were hired around; wants to build and lead a team while still writing code
Appetite to contribute across the product, not just integrations — opinions about where Volta should go in France, and the drive to go build them
Fluent French and English, with excellent technical communication in both
High autonomy and ownership — comfortable reporting to a CTO based in another country, escalating early rather than absorbing problems silently, and juggling presales, delivery, and hiring without dropping delivery
Nice to have:
Experience in a Tech or startup environment
ERP integration experience specifically
Familiarity with wholesale, distribution, or order management environments
Consulting or enterprise integration background
Experience as a first hire in a country, or in an office remote from HQ
Has hired and onboarded engineers before
A builder mentality — defaults to shipping over delegating, and thrives on the adaptability a fast-moving startup demands
Benefits
How we hire
Screen — Chief of Staff (30 min, French): scope, seniority, motivation for a founding in-country role
Integration deep dive — CTO + Connect Tech Lead (60 min): system design discussion
Founder & Customer Success — ideally in person in the Paris office; a conversation with the Founder and the Customer Success team you’ll work with daily (two calls if in person isn’t possible)
Reference checks
Key figures
In short
Founding year
2024
Employees
40
Average age
32
Annual revenue
2M€
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