Founding Engineer

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