Fullstack Engineer, Freenow

• Passionate about Kotlin or Java
• Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools
• Proven professional experience with React and the modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
• Hands-on experience with building, integrating, or contributing to a Design System
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency
• Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box
• Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desirable

• We are looking for a talented and motivated Fullstack Engineer (m/f/d) for our new Driver Onboarding team
• As part of a highly skilled, cross-functional team comprising Fullstack Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work
• Our team is the cornerstone of the driver experience, with a core focus on streamlining the driver registration flow and ensuring the integrity of our platform through advanced document validation processes. Our mission is to provide a fast, frictionless, and secure onboarding journey for every new driver. We achieve this by:
• Designing and implementing the entire driver registration and onboarding journey, making it simple, intuitive, and fast
• Developing and maintaining robust, automated document validation systems to ensure compliance and quick approval for drivers
• Developing user-centric interfaces for the driver portal using React, ensuring a seamless and high-performance experience
• Building, integrating, and contributing to our internal Design System to ensure a consistent and scalable user interface
• Collaborating closely with Operations and other engineering teams to constantly optimize process automation within the document lifecycle
• Providing self-service tools that empower drivers to efficiently manage their documentation and account details
• Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams to improve the overall driver experience
• As a critical part of our company, this team's work directly impacts thousands of drivers and, ultimately, the experiences of millions of customers. Your contributions in this role will have a tangible and far-reaching effect on the lives of many
• As an engineer on our team, you will tackle the exciting challenges of building a best-in-class driver onboarding platform. This includes designing and building innovative, high-scale solutions across the full stack—from backend services for document validation and workflow automation to a state-of-the-art frontend user experience using React and our internal design system. You'll be involved in every stage of product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience
• We also value a mindset that challenges the status quo—constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our products and maintain a state-of-the-art codebase. Beyond technical excellence, your contributions will help foster a collaborative and inspiring team culture, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling environment
• Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it
• Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings
• Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.)
• Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies
• You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work
• Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch | React | TypeScript | Design Systems & more