Tech jobs in Paris without French

Updated 12 October 2026

Short answer: tech is the easiest field to work in English in Paris. Many engineering, data and product teams at Paris scale-ups and international groups use English day to day, because they hire from all over Europe and sell abroad.

Tech companies hiring in English in Paris

Companies with recent English-friendly tech openings on Pardon My French include:

• Algolia: search and discovery APIs
• Scaleway: European cloud provider
• Scality: data storage software
• Pigment: business planning software
• Qonto: business banking
• Voodoo: mobile games and apps
• Brevo: marketing and CRM software
• Kering: data platform and engineering roles at the luxury group

See the live catalogue for what is open today.

Roles most often open without French

• Backend, frontend, mobile and full-stack engineering
• Platform, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and site reliability
• Data engineering, analytics, data science and machine learning
• Product management and product design
• Technical sales and solutions engineering for international markets

Roles that face French customers directly, such as pre-sales, implementation or support for French clients, usually require French.

What “French is a plus” means in tech

In tech ads, “French is a plus” almost always means the team works in English and French helps with office life. Some employers go further. One recent data engineering ad said “if your French is not yet fully operational, we will support you in reaching a working proficiency level within 6 to 12 months”. That role is open to you, but expect to learn French on the job.

How we screen each job

Pardon My French collects tech roles from company career pages (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) and large job boards, and screens every offer for its language requirements. Only roles whose ad shows French isn’t needed are published, and each one quotes the language evidence from the original ad. The wider picture is in English-speaking jobs in Paris.