Junior Backend Engineer, Freenow
Fintech
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Multi-service ride-hailing app
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Multi-service ride-hailing app
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make urban mobility safe, reliable, accessible and sustainable for all.
Role
Who you are
- 1 or 2 years of software engineering experience/knowledge in Kotlin or Java
- While we typically look for candidates with advanced university degrees in Maths, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative disciplines, we're happy for you to prove us wrong and show that these degrees aren't necessary
- Good in abstracting technical information based on level of understanding of the audience
- Keen about scalable web applications, such as RESTful APIs but also event-driven architectures, dealing with transactions and resiliency
- Familiar with the quirks of Spring (Boot) or similar JVM framework
- Understanding of relational databases
- Knowledge of testing in the whole software life cycle (unit / integration / system)
- Preferably knowledge of financial systems
What the job involves
- We are keen to hire Backend Engineers for our FinTech Team - building the systems for controlled and transparent money flows - both for our mobility customers and our mobility providers
- Our work offers our customers a tailor made and convenient payment experience while creating transparency with our partners about their financials, building our most important value with them: Trust
- Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate developers who strive for excellence and like to have fun
- Own the Feature, Own the Code, Own the Microservice – feel responsible for what you create. This starts with bringing in your own feature ideas, includes coding, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring the feature
- Collaborate with your team members in an agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies
- Be accountable for all topics above, but always stay a team player
- Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work
- Implement clean and scaled microservices
- Maintainability of existing features and be able to debug potential issues
- Bring in a strong team spirit and be humble to make decisions as a team
- Solve real problems that impact real users
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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