Confirmed Backend Engineer, BlaBlaCar
Discover
+ Employee Stock Ownership plan
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
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 have 3+ years of experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context
- You are fluent in Java and know frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito
- You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes , and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
- You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern
- You have good communication skills, you’re humble and you're a team player
- Full working proficiency in English
- Fit with our BlaBla Principles
- Nice to have: some knowledge or prior experience with Ruby on rails
What the job involves
- Making a good first impression is key when you meet someone new.At BlaBlaCar, this is the job of the Discover squad
- Whether it’s the home page or specialized landing pages, the mission of the squad is to gather all the trips available on BlaBlaCar (carpool, bus and soon trains), enrich them with useful information for the users and render these pages in the blink of an eye (think blazing fast response and web performance)
- As a Confirmed Backend Engineer, your role will be to contribute to the platform we use to deliver scalable and reliable landing pages
- In addition, you will leverage your technical leadership skills by being the engineering point of contact on impactful projects. You will drive technical discoveries, help align on technical architecture, and ensure the good progress of the delivery until the rollout
- You will be reporting to Charlotte, Engineering Manager, and working with a team of 3 Frontend Engineers, 3 Backend Engineers and 1 Product Manager
- Participate in the design, development and maintenance of our Java microservices that serve landing pages on the BlaBlaCar platform
- Contribute in all phases of a project, meaning: discovery, development, test strategy, QA, deployment to production, without forgetting observability and support
- Collaborate with product and design teams to find the most relevant features for our members
- Interact with people with different roles and backgrounds, and sharing your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product and business experts
Application process
- A 45-min video-call with Maxime, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- A 60-min video-call with Charlotte, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
- A 90-min live coding session with software engineers
- A 60-min design interview 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$109.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $559.2m
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 HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
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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