France

Feeny is tracking about 2,324 open tech roles in France, from roughly 314 companies hiring. Each one comes from a company's own careers page, so a listing means a live role rather than a stale repost. Paris accounts for most of the volume, with Bordeaux adding a smaller pool. Filter by discipline to narrow it down.

Paris is where French tech concentrates, and most listings land there. It's home to the AI wave, the fintech names, and the big startup campus at Station F, so the depth of roles is well ahead of anywhere else in the country. Bordeaux is the notable secondary spot, smaller but real. Across the 2 French cities we index, expect Paris to carry the search unless you specifically want to be elsewhere.

French AI is having a real moment, and Mistral is at the front of it, leading a wave of model and tooling work out of Paris. Beyond AI, Doctolib built a large health-tech business, Qonto scaled in fintech, and Alan took on health insurance. The French Tech push and Station F helped seed a lot of this. Feeny lists roles from about 314 companies nationwide, so the current set is worth a direct look.

The mix leans AI and machine learning, fintech, health tech, and backend engineering. Mistral and the broader model scene have pulled ML and research talent into Paris in a way that wasn't true a few years ago. Doctolib and Alan drive health-tech hiring, while Qonto adds fintech and payments work. France produces strong engineers, and the demand now matches the supply.

France gives you strong worker protections, generous vacation, and a culture that genuinely defends time off, which is a real draw. Paris is expensive by European standards, though still below London, and the tech scene there has more energy now than at any point in the last decade thanks to the AI push. The government's French Tech program has made it easier to build and hire. The honest trade is that some workplaces and admin still run heavily in French, so the language matters more here than in Amsterdam or Berlin.

The French Tech Visa is a fast-track route built specifically for founders, employees, and investors, which makes France one of the more foreigner-friendly European markets for skilled tech hires. The EU Blue Card also applies if you'd rather go that way. Between the two, a qualified engineer with an offer has a clear path in. The market is genuinely open, and the government has spent real effort making relocation smoother.