Founding Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026.
Join Volta, a fast-growing startup in the electric vehicle charging industry. As a Founding Engineer, you will be the technical leader in France, responsible for building integrations, shaping the product, and growing the engineering team. You will report directly to the CTO and have a significant impact on the company's success in the French market.
Missions
- Lead engineering efforts in France, starting with the design and development of Python integrations connecting Volta to client systems.
- Act as Volta's technical voice in France, participating in presales conversations and running technical kickoffs.
- Grow the engineering team by hiring, onboarding, and leading engineers, while defining how the team works in France.
Profil recherché
**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