The Role
Lead and manage the Booking squad, ensuring a smooth user experience for booking trips by collaborating with product and data teams to achieve project objectives.
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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
Having a smooth user experience is key when you book a trip online. At BlaBlaCar, this is the job of the Booking squad. Whether it’s to book a carpool, a bus seat, or a train ticket, their role is to make it easy and safe for our users to configure and purchase their trip.
As Engineering Manager of the Booking squad, your mission is to lead a diverse, talented team of approximately 10 Frontend and Backend Engineers to build a scalable, reliable, and best-in-class booking experience for our users.
You will achieve this by partnering closely with a dedicated Product Manager, a Product Designer, and our Data team to define the vision, execute the roadmap, and drive significant impact across the company.
Your responsibilities
- Engineering Leadership: Act as the main engineering advisor to the Product Manager and business stakeholders, participating in the definition of the squad’s objectives and long-term technical roadmap
- Delivery Management: Facilitate the planning and delivery of complex, cross-team projects while ensuring performance, stability, and long-term scalability
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Product Managers from the OTA, Bus, Train, and Carpool teams to prioritize deliveries according to our business objectives and report on your squad’s progress
- People Management: Recruit, inspire, and grow your team of engineers through mentorship, career development, and regular feedback
- Operational Excellence: Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, ensuring the team leverages modern tools (like AI-driven acceleration) to maintain high productivity and quality
Your qualifications
- Management Experience: A confirmed experience in a management position with proven people management skills
- Technical Background: Experience in building reliable, scalable, and secure consumer-facing products, ideally with knowledge across backend (Java, Spring) and frontend (Kotlin, Swift, React, TypeScript) stacks
- Communication: Strong leadership and communication skills in English, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical constraints and business/compliance requirements
- Problem-Solving: A track record of "getting things done" and the ability to take a step back to prioritize added-value tasks in a high-stakes environment
- Agile Expertise: Experience in managing development processes using agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
What we have to offer
- Hybrid status for this role : 2-3 days at the Office
- 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
- 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
- Financial support for home office equipment
- Minimum 25 days holiday per year
- Local meal plan policy (Swile card)
- 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
- Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
- Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
- Employee Stock ownership plan
- Regular team building events
- 1 day off per year to test our product
Hiring process
- 30-min interview with Chloé Friess our Talent Acquisition Manager - career path, growth mindset
- 45-min interview with Louise Guibal Head of Demand - delivery management, people management, agility, and teamwork
- 45-min interview with Product Manager - product & design mindset, business prioritization
- 30-min skip-level with Gilles Laborderie VP Engineering - culture fit and career aspirations
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Top Skills
Java
Kotlin
React
Spring
Swift
Typescript
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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.
