Senior Backend Engineer, Freenow
Health & B2B
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
- You bring solid experience in backend development and know what it takes to build production-grade systems
- You have hands-on experience—or are eager to get up to speed—with Kotlin, Spring, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Kafka
- You take initiative and ownership of your work, and you're always looking for ways to improve
- You thrive in collaborative, autonomous teams where sharing knowledge and giving feedback are part of everyday life
- You enjoy working with both deep tech experts and product-oriented thinkers
- You’re purpose-driven and motivated by challenges that make a real impact
- You’re a creative problem solver with a pragmatic mindset and a passion for clean, maintainable code
- You’re confident in communicating in English, both written and spoken
What the job involves
- Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to build the intuitive platform that powers our diverse B2B, Health, and Partnerships platforms. As a Backend Engineer in one of our Health & B2B teams, your work will focus on building new, user-facing features for customers directly
- You will be responsible for creating the backbone of our specialized services, allowing users to easily manage business travel or patient transport. Your code will be the bridge that seamlessly connects our corporate and health partnerships to the everyday user, making their travel easier and more efficient
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality backend services
- Taking full ownership of features—from brainstorming and design to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Working closely with engineers, product managers, and customer success teams to build impactful solutions
- Exploring and integrating AI-powered tools and workflows to drive innovation in our platform
- Contributing ideas to improve team practices, engineering quality, and overall development efficiency
- Ensuring system reliability with thoughtful monitoring, alerting, and robust CI/CD pipelines
- Actively participating in our backend engineering community—sharing knowledge, discussing trends, and growing together
- Thriving in a culture built on transparency, continuous learning, mutual respect, and team recognition
- Our Techstack: Kotlin | Spring | Go | PostgreSQL | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka & more
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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