Confirmed Android Engineer, BlaBlaCar
Post Booking
+Employee Stock Ownership plan
More information about location
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+Employee Stock Ownership plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
BlaBlaCar's mission is 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
- 3+ years experience building Android apps with a strong engineering culture
- Experience with MVVM architecture and clean architecture
- Experience working on RESTful API, Dagger, Retrofit, Kotlin, Kotlin coroutines, unit and integration tests
- You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a strong product focus, you appropriately set the needle between technical quality and time-to-market
- You have good communication skills, you enjoy sharing & learning from others, you’re able to adapt your communication to non-technical stakeholders
- You’re a team player, willing to positively tweak and improve our team’s ways of working, favoring team communication and agreements over theoretical or dogmatic approaches
- You embrace change, are able to take a step back, and focus on added-value tasks
- You have a results-driven and product-oriented mindset
- You’re fluent in English
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Confirmed Android Engineer to join our Post-booking full-stack squad at BlaBlaCar
- Within the squad, you'll work on building and fine-tuning top-quality features which enable our passengers to enjoy a smooth and serene post-purchase experience, from real-time bus tracking to seamless ticket exchange ; our ultimate objective being to elevate our customers’ satisfaction and loyalty
- As a Confirmed Android Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively with your squad mates and your stakeholders on the design and the delivery of these product features from the early-stage conception to the final roll-out. Beyond the actual implementation, you'll be empowered to own and impact each phase of our projects' lifecycle
- You will be reporting to Alexandre, Engineering Manager of the squad, and will join a full-stack squad composed with 6 engineers, supported by a Product Manager and an UX Designer. You will also be part of the transversal Android chapter composed of the 11 Android Engineers dedicated to BlaBlaCar's mobile application
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production
- Design, architect and develop Post-Booking features for the BlaBlaCar application
- Be responsible for the quality of the Android application, and contribute to improving it
- Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes
- Conduct code reviews
Application process
- A 45-min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- A 60-min video-call with Alexandre, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
- A 60-min design case with Software Engineers, going deeper into your technical skills in problem solving
- A 60-min Live coding / Pair programming with Software Engineers
- A 60-min Code review with Software Engineers
- A 30-min video-call with Gilles, VP Engineering, for vision fit and rounding off the process
- Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days, offers usually come within 48 hours
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. 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 for connecting travelers 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 greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a 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. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$105.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $553.6m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- A fair & competitive salary package
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company values
- Be The Member - We are users of our service, members of our community
- Share more. Learn more - We learn and grow collectively as a team
- Fail. Learn. Succeed - We are innovating, taking risks, building an entirely novel solution, walking on unbeaten paths
- Dream. Decide. Deliver - Great ideas come with bold decisions, and the diligence to deliver on them
- Be lean. Go far - A creative start-up spirit is nurtured by frugality and a smart use of resources that will enable long-term sustainable growth
- Fun & Serious - When you take what you do at heart, and work seriously, there is room for everyone to have fun together, and enjoy the ride
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
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Leadership
Frédéric Mazzella
(President)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO)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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