Confirmed Backend Engineer, BlaBlaCar
Operated Buses
Offers Employee Stock Ownership plan
2-3 days a week in office
Carpooling & bus service marketplace
Be an early applicant
Carpooling & bus service marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Employee Stock Ownership plan
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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
Application process
- 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
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs quickly adding up. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.
BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace to connect travellers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.
Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by providing this regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$119.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $570.9m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
Leadership
Frédéric Mazzella
(President & Co-Founder)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.
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