Principal Software Engineer, Blacklane
+ ESOP
Carbon-neutral global chauffeur service
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Carbon-neutral global chauffeur service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ ESOP
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make top-quality service convenient and accessible worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience in transforming monolithic architectures into event-driven microservices, ideally in large e-commerce or marketplace platforms
- Hands-On Approach: You enjoy collaborating with engineers and solving complex problems, even if you're not coding daily
- Strategic Vision: Ability to align technical strategy with business goals
- Data-Driven Mindset: Analytical thinker with the ability to use data to drive technical decisions and process improvements
What the job involves
- Blacklane is looking for an experienced and innovative Principal Engineer to lead our technical efforts in the Guest domain
- In this role, you’ll shape the future of our platform’s architecture and technology, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions that enhance the guest experience
- Our environment is composed of Ruby, Go, Typescript and Java services, designed using DDD
- These services are deployed to our Kubernetes cluster and communicate via domain events using SQS and Kafka
- We use diverse data storage technologies such as Postgres, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and DynamoDB
- As for infrastructure and cloud resources, we predominantly use AWS and manage provisioning through Terraform
- Envision: Develop and drive the technical vision for our platform. Collaborate with stakeholders, document your plan, and guide engineers through execution
- Enable: Empower the engineering team to improve flexibility, agility, and productivity across the company
- Support: Provide high-level and hands-on support, assess the platform’s architecture, and build strong relationships across teams
- Learn & Innovate: Stay on the cutting edge of technology, explore new ideas, and bring them to life. Participate in conferences and share your insights
- Continuous Improvement: Define and monitor key technical metrics, using data-driven insights to improve system performance and engineering processes
Our take
Business transport for frequent travellers can be a difficult process. The pain of booking systems, invoicing, and inconsistent quality of services are issues travellers regularly face, hindering business operations and causing unnecessary delays. Chauffeurs also experience empty cars due to non-optimised booking processes.
Blacklane aims at the higher end of the market, targeting corporate workers, executives and those who have the means to pay extra for higher levels of service when they travel. Through a booking system available on the company's website and in-app, Blacklane provides a reliable high-end service with inclusive pricing and on-call customer support. Blacklane also works for chauffeurs, filling empty seats to optimise services.
The company is also environmentally conscious, operating as a carbon-neutral company since 2017. The company offers electric vehicle rides in more than 30 of its 300 operational cities, and by 2025, aims for 75 percent of all rides to be in EVs. With substantial funding from Mercedes Benz in 2022, it seems set to meet these objectives.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$62.5m
SERIES G
Mar 2021
$26m
LATE VC
Total funding: $165.8m
Company benefits
- Personal development plan & budget for online courses, conferences, and books
- Monthly 1:1 feedback chats with our C-level team members
- Employee stock option plan
- Flexible working hours & hybrid remote model
- Friday evening drinks at the office & twice-a-year department events
Company values
- Be reliable: Provide a service that customers can rely on. Be someone your colleagues can count on. Work only with reliable chauffeurs that we trust. Earn trust and keep it
- Break new ground: Look for ways to improve. Encourage curiosity. Learn quickly from mistakes and grow from the experience. Aim to be better every day. Seek to create an amazing service, be the industry leader, and exceed guests’ expectations.
- Care: Care about our guests. Care about our crew of chauffeurs and each other. Care about making our product and service exceptional. Care about our community and how we give back
- Go the extra mile: Look beyond what is required. Be proactive to go beyond guests’ expectations. If you see that something could be better, take the initiative to improve it.
- Act with integrity: Act in a fair and honest manner. Strive to always do the right thing for our guests, chauffeurs, and each other. Treat everyone with the same high level of respect — just as you would like to be treated
Company HQ
Schöneberg, Berlin, BE
Articles
Leadership
Dr. Jens Wohltorf
(CEO)A director of the competence center next generation services for DAI-Labor and principal leader at the Boston Consulting Group.
Frank Steuer
(Member of the Board)CTO at SemperLink and co-founder and CTO at Firstfon Ltd.
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