Location: Come and join us in Barcelona!
We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Driver Experience In Trip Team.
As part of a highly-skilled cross-functional team that comprises 2 iOS Engineers, 2 Android Engineers, 3 BE Engineers, Product Manager, Product Designer and headed up by a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work.
The team mission is to simplify and elevate the journey of FREENOW drivers, ensuring a smooth and rewarding experience throughout every trip. To do so, some challenges you will face will be to design and deliver impactful solutions (by participating in all stages of their discovery and delivery) that will provide a delightful, sustainable, and customized urban mobility experience. We have tens of thousands of drivers from 8 countries using our platform 24/7.
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: Java | Kotlin | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch & more
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:- Passionate about Java or Kotlin
- 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 RabbitMQ or Kafka
- 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
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
FREE NOW 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.
ABOUT US:
We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.
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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/
