The Role
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain internal tools, work closely with cross-functional teams, and oversee the entire application lifecycle.
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About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.
Your mission
We are looking for a Confirmed Backend Engineer to join the Operated Buses Software Team !
The team’s mission is to build unique and advanced Tech Solutions that improve the efficiency and productivity of our Operated Buses business users, differentiating ourselves from competitors.
You will be a part of a team currently made of 1 Backend, 1 Frontend and 1 Fullstack engineers. But you will also work closely with Product Manager, Data Engineers and SaaS functional analysts to provide the best-in-class tools.
We believe that well performing services are ones that are followed by the same people throughout its application lifecycle. This means that you will be there from the early conception meetings, development and test strategy, to deployment in production, observability, and support.
Your responsibilities
• Defining the Backend architecture according to the technical standards at BlaBlaCar.
• Participating in the design, development and maintenance of our internal tools, both on the Backend and Frontend side.
• Participating in the whole application lifecycle, meaning : early meetings, design, development, tests strategy, deployment to production, monitoring, alerting and support
• Interacting with people with different roles and backgrounds and sharing your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product and business experts
• Being a work facilitator and help communication inside and outside your team
Your qualifications
• Fluency in object oriented language development (Java)
• Strong knowledge of service oriented architecture and architectural patterns
• Hands-on experience with developer tools like Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
• Product-oriented spirit with the ambition to deliver the best experience to our internal customers
• You have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), you’re humble, and you enjoy sharing & learning from others
• You embrace change, are able to take a step back, prioritize, and focus on added-value tasks
• Fluent in English
Nice to have:
• Knowledge of frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit and Mockito
• Experience with developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
• Experience working with GCP (preferably), AWS or any equivalent Cloud platform
• Familiar with databases, relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL ones (Google Datastore)
What we have to offer?
• Hybrid status for this role : 2-3 days at the Office
• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
• Financial support for home office equipment
• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
• Employee Stock Ownership plan
• 25 days holiday per year + RTT
• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
• Mental health support through Moka.care
Here is what your hiring journey will look like
• a 45-min video-call with Maxime, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations, and answer your first questions
• a 60-min video call with Solène Peltier-Maurin, Manager of the Operated Buses Software Team, to get to know you, present you the team, and discuss your technical fit for the role.
• a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers
• a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers
• a 45-min video-call with Yannick Hoffsess, Head-Of Engineering Bus and Train, for vision fit and rounding off the process
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Top Skills
AWS
Datadog
Docker
GCP
Git
Google Datastore
Java
Junit
Kubernetes
Mockito
Postgres
Spring
Spring Boot
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The Company
What We Do
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 million active members a year to share a ride in 21 countries. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. With the mission to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, BlaBlaCar combines carpooling with bus journeys from over 4000 operators to offer a wide choice of affordable and sustainable travel solutions, all in one app. In 2022, BlaBlaCar’s trusted community connected 2 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 90 million human encounters. Carpool drivers saved 450 million euros, and all BlaBlaCar’s mobility services contributed to avoiding 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
