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
To make urban mobility safe, reliable, accessible and sustainable for all.
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
Freenow is a multi-mobility app that's working to make getting around cities safer, faster, and more convenient. The platform puts safety first, connecting passengers with thousands of experiences, vetted drives across Europe. The app offers seven different ways to travel in one place, making it easy to choose the best option for any journey - whether that's a quick work commute, an airport run, or even a night out.
Freenow has a strong European footprint and is focused on working with professional taxi drivers rather than just ride-share amateurs. The service operates in over 180 cities across nine countries and has pickups points at 50 airports. Taxis arrive in an average of four minutes, and the whole experience is cashless, letting users travel like locals.
Recently, the company was acquired by Lyft in an impressive cross-marekt usage, the Lyft app was opened 4.6M times in Freenow's marekt since earl 2024, while Freenow was used 1.2M times in Lyft's territory. This merger could double Lyft's addressable market to over 300B trips per year. Freenow CEO Thomas Zimmermann and his team will continues leading operations across their nine countries and for users, this means the platform should get even better as both companies integrate their technologies and strengths to serve customers worldwide.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2014
$50m
SERIES C
Dec 2012
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $97m
Company benefits
- Sabbatical leave: Get rewarded for you rhard work with a sabbatical after two years.
- Employee assistance program: Your wellbeing is our priority, anonymous external support is always available.
- Welcome & anniversary gifts: We'll send you a little something to celebrate these special occasions.
- Mobility benefits card: Get from A to B on us. Every month you'll get a mobility budget to try out different transport options.
- Flexible work options: Work as you are and where you want with flexible hours and remote opportunities.
- Talent development: Your growth is important to us. Progress your career with dedicated training courses and regulars development check-ins.
- Birthday off: Celebrate in style with an extra dy off each year.
- Remote work within the EU: Work up to 20 business days every 6 months from all countries in the European Union & Switzerland.
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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