Location: Athens
We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Supply Driver Quality Team.
As part of a highly skilled, cross-functional team comprising Mobile Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work.
Our team is dedicated to enhancing the Quality of Service (QoS) for drivers, ensuring they have the tools and insights needed to deliver exceptional service. We achieve this by:
- Measuring and analyzing driver performance, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.
- Enabling self-service capabilities, empowering drivers to manage their accounts efficiently.
- Providing access to support tools, ensuring drivers receive timely assistance.
- Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams.
As a critical part of our company, this team's work directly impacts thousands of drivers and, ultimately, the experiences of millions of customers. Your contributions in this role will have a tangible and far-reaching effect on the lives of many.
As an engineer on our team, you will tackle exciting challenges, including designing and building innovative products that enhance urban mobility—creating solutions that are delightful, sustainable, and tailored to the needs of our users. You'll be involved in every stage of product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience.
We also value a mindset that challenges the status quo—constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our products and maintain a state-of-the-art codebase. Beyond technical excellence, your contributions will help foster a collaborative and inspiring team culture, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling environment.
YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:- Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it.
- Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings.
- Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.).
- Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.
- You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them.
- Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work.
Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch & more
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:- Passionate about Kotlin or Java.
- Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.).
- Knowledge of microservices architecture.
- Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
- Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.
- Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Nice to have:
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Flexible working arrangements
- LinkedIn Learning
- Sabbatical & special leave policies
- WeRoad partnership
- Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
- Short term EU work policy
- Mobility Credit
- Health Insurance
- Employee assistance program
Plus more local benefits depending on your work location!
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
FREENOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.
What We Do
FREENOW is the Mobility Super App with the largest vehicle choice for consumers across Europe available in 9 markets and in over 150 cities. Users can access all types of mobility services within a single app including taxis, Ride (PHV), Carsharing, eScooters, eBikes and eMopeds and public transport. FREENOW aggregates numerous mobility brands with the ambition to make urban mobility more efficient and sustainable without adding new vehicles on the street. The Germany-based company is backed by the BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility. In total, around 1,000 employees in more than 26 offices work for the services of FREENOW, which is led by CEO Thomas Zimmermann. Intelligent Apps GmbH Neumühlen 19 22763 Hamburg Germany Managing Directors (Geschäftsführer): Thomas Zimmermann, Dr. Johannes Prantl Chairman of the Supervisory Board (Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats): Stephan Unger Contact: Tel.: +49 40 30606890 Fax.: +49 40 306068966 E-Mail: [email protected] FREENOW FAQ: https://support.free-now.com/hc/en-gb Help Center: https://support.free-now.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new Registry entry: Register court: District Court Hamburg Register number: HRB 110377 Privacy Policy: https://free-now.com/uk/gtc-privacy-policy-cookies/
