Confirmed Front End Engineer, BlaBlaCar
Search Squad
Employee Stock Ownership plan offered
More information about location
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
Open for applications
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Employee Stock Ownership plan offered
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
- You are passionate about web development and have production experience with Typescript and a JavaScript framework or library (React, Angular or Vue) in an API centric ecosystem
- 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, and have the ability to find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery
- You have a results-driven and impact-oriented mindset
- Fluency in English
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Confirmed Frontend Engineer to join our Search team at BlaBlaCar
- Their mission is to enable passengers to seamlessly choose the most relevant multimodal trip from our carpool, bus, and train supplies
- As a Frontend Engineer, you would be focusing on the development of the BlaBlaCar website
- 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 web application stack is a mono repo based on React and Typescript. We use REST APIs to communicate with a backend of microservices built mainly in Java
- You will be reporting to Louise, the Engineering Manager of the team, and working with a team of 5 other frontend engineers (2 iOS, 2 Android & 1 SPA) and 5 backend engineers
- You will also be part of the transversal SPA chapter composed of the 13 frontend web engineers dedicated to BlaBlaCar's web application
- Enhancing, maintaining and monitoring BlaBlaCar web app, a complex technical stack with 2 million page views per day in 22 countries
- Developing and maintaining our design system by creating extensible and accessible UI components
- Be responsible for the quality of the application, and contribute to improving it. Participate in design and code reviews
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production
- Share your knowledge with the team: provide documentation on your work, enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes
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 Louise, 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 45-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
Some 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
$106.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $555.1m
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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