Backend Engineer, FREENOW
1 day a week in office
Multi-service ride-hailing app
Job no longer available
Multi-service ride-hailing app
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1 day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Free Now's mission is to make urban mobility better for passengers, drivers and communities, and to help cities move more freely.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about Java or Kotlin
- Familiarity with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks
- Experience with automated tests
- Experience with CI/CD tools
- Familiarity with SQL and especially PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e. Grafana, Kibana, Datadog etc)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture
- Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful APIs, dealing with transactions, and resiliency
- Familiar with messaging by using RabbitMQ or Kafka
- High level of creativity, there’s all the freedom to think outside the box
- Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative, and enjoy working in a group
- Very good written and verbal communication skills in English
Desirable
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers
- Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
What the job involves
- As part of a highly-skilled, cross-functional team—including Frontend and Backend Engineers, Product Designers, and a Product Manager—you’ll collaborate closely with an engineering manager to help shape the future of urban mobility at FREENOW, simplifying life in cities
- As one of our Engineers, we would also look to you to challenge the Status Quo and look at new solutions that will make our products better by having a state-of-the-art code base and overall contribute to making our team a pleasure to work with
- Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. This 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 application bottlenecks and performance issues, improve the usage of resources (DB access, cache, messaging, etc)
- Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies
- Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them: you care about teamwork
- Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work
- Solving real problems that impact real users
- Reviewing teammates' Pull Requests and providing feedback
- Mentoring more junior developers
- Participating in high-level technical decisions
Our take
FREE NOW is a multi-service mobility joint venture backed by BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility. The company aggregates numerous mobility brands with the ambition to make urban mobility more efficient and sustainable without adding new vehicles on the street. These include Beat, Kapten and Clever Taxi.
FREE NOW’s unique integration of mobility brands and payments services gives users access to the widest range of mobility options on the market. These options include finding the nearest taxi, private hire vehicle or car share, as well as micro-mobility options such as e-scooters, e-mopeds and e-bikes. In doing so, the company makes urban mobility more efficient and sustainable, without bringing new vehicles to the street.
FREE NOW operates across 170 cities with over 56 million users. In the UK, it faces competition from the likes of Uber and Bolt. However, the company has been focused on investing and growing further in London, successfully quadrupling UK journeys in 2022. Whilst businesses like Uber have struggled to secure licenses with Transport for London, FREE NOW has received a three year license, which is longer than any major competitor.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
44% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2014
$50m
SERIES C
Dec 2012
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $97m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Subsidised gym membership
- Monthly budget for FREE NOW rides
- Quarterly team events
- Birthday-off
- Language classes and internal peer-to-peer trainings
- Work from home opportunities
- Health Insurance
- Relocation assistance for internationals
Company values
- Aim Higher
- Make The Customer The Hero Of Your Story
- Default To Trust
- Disagree In Discussions, Commit To Decisions
- Move Fast To Learn Fast
- Make An Impact
- Take Charge
- Win As Team, Grow As Individual
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Leadership
Thomas Zimmermann
(CEO)Previously VP of Marketing and Operations at IONIQ Group, CMO at Goodgame Studios, Online Advertising Lecturer at macromedia hochschule für medien und kommunikation.
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