Engineering Manager, BlaBlaCar
Booking Squad
2-3 days a week in office
Carpooling & bus service marketplace
Be an early applicant
Carpooling & bus service marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
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
- Management Experience: A confirmed experience in a management position with proven people management skills
- Technical Background: Experience in building reliable, scalable, and secure consumer-facing products, ideally with knowledge across backend (Java, Spring) and frontend (Kotlin, Swift, React, TypeScript) stacks
- Communication: Strong leadership and communication skills in English, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical constraints and business/compliance requirements
- Problem-Solving: A track record of "getting things done" and the ability to take a step back to prioritize added-value tasks in a high-stakes environment
- Agile Expertise: Experience in managing development processes using agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
What the job involves
- As Engineering Manager of the Booking squad, your mission is to lead a diverse, talented team of approximately 10 Frontend and Backend Engineers to build a scalable, reliable, and best-in-class booking experience for our users
- You will achieve this by partnering closely with a dedicated Product Manager, a Product Designer, and our Data team to define the vision, execute the roadmap, and drive significant impact across the company
- Engineering Leadership: Act as the main engineering advisor to the Product Manager and business stakeholders, participating in the definition of the squad’s objectives and long-term technical roadmap
- Delivery Management: Facilitate the planning and delivery of complex, cross-team projects while ensuring performance, stability, and long-term scalability
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Product Managers from the OTA, Bus, Train, and Carpool teams to prioritize deliveries according to our business objectives and report on your squad’s progress
- People Management: Recruit, inspire, and grow your team of engineers through mentorship, career development, and regular feedback
- Operational Excellence: Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, ensuring the team leverages modern tools (like AI-driven acceleration) to maintain high productivity and quality
Application process
- 30-min interview with Chloé Friess our Talent Acquisition Manager - career path, growth mindset
- 45-min interview with Louise Guibal Head of Demand - delivery management, people management, agility, and teamwork
- 45-min interview with Product Manager - product & design mindset, business prioritization
- 30-min skip-level with Gilles Laborderie VP Engineering - culture fit and career aspirations
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs quickly adding up. 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 to connect travellers 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 providing this 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.
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
$119.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $570.9m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship
- 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 & Co-Founder)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO & Co-Founder)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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