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 Software Engineer to join the Train Supply team. The mission is to scale the current BlaBlaCar train distribution in Europe supporting the expansion of the train supply to new markets and countries.
As a backend developer you will work on technical challenges and product feature development from early-stage conception, to development, testing strategy, deployment, and monitoring of new releases.
BlaBlaCar’s Train GDS stack is a scalable micro service architecture in spring boot 3 started in 2022. It uses REST API to communicate with other backends services in BlaBlaCar and with the suppliers.
You will be reporting to Solene, the Engineering Manager of the team, and working with a team of 3 other backend engineers. You will collaborate closely with several engineering teams, data, QA product managers and business developers to build robust and scalable features.
Your responsibilities
- Defining scalable solutions to overcome the technical challenges of Train Distribution
- Enhancing, maintaining and monitoring the current BlaBlaCar train ecosystem.
- Participating in the whole application lifecycle, meaning : initial discovery, design, development, tests strategy, deployment to production, monitoring, alerting and support
- Interacting with people with different roles, backgrounds and culture, and share your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product and business experts.
- Take the lead on complex projects involving multiple teams from BlaBlaCar in different pillars and external actors.
- Cultivate a continuous learning mindset, testing and experimenting new patterns, contributing to elevate the train team engineering standards.
- Actively leverage AI tools in your daily workflows, explore innovative AI-driven engineering practices, to improve productivity and code quality.
Your qualifications
- You have 3+ years of experience from companies with a strong engineering culture.
- You are fluent in Java and knowledge of frameworks such as Spring Boot, JUnit and Mockito.
- You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions.
- You know what a service oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern.
- You understand when and how to do a tradeoff between fast iterations and delivery quality.
- You have excellent communication skills, you’re humble, and you are a team player.
- Fluency in English.
- Nice to have : you have strong knowledge of train distribution or of a similar environment with the same technical challenges.
What we have to offer
• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
Interested in joining the ride?
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience at companies with a strong engineering culture
- Fluency in Java
- Knowledge of Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito
- Hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions
- Understanding of service-oriented architecture and architectural pattern selection
- Ability to balance fast iteration with delivery quality
- Excellent communication skills
- Team-oriented and humble approach
- Fluency in English
- Strong knowledge of train distribution or a technically similar environment
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.
