About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the worlds leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices 30% working fully remotely.
Your mission
We are looking for a Confirmed Backend Engineer to join the Operated Buses Software Team !
The teams mission is to build unique and advanced Tech Solutions that improve the efficiency and productivity of our Operated Buses business users differentiating ourselves from competitors.
You will be a part of a team currently made of 1 Backend 1 Frontend and 1 Fullstack engineers. But you will also work closely with Data Scientists and Product Managers to provide the best-in-class tools.
We believe that well performing services are ones that are followed by the same people throughout its application lifecycle. This means that you will be there from the early conception meetings development and test strategy to deployment in production observability and support.
Your responsibilities
Defining the Backend architecture according to the technical standards at BlaBlaCar.
Participating in the design development and maintenance of our internal tools both on the Backend and Frontend side.
Participating in the whole application lifecycle meaning : early meetings design development tests strategy deployment to production monitoring alerting and support
Interacting with people with different roles and backgrounds and sharing your technical expertise with a mix of technical product and business experts
Being a work facilitator and help communication inside and outside your team
Your qualifications
Fluency in object oriented language development (Java)
Strong knowledge of service oriented architecture and architectural patterns
Hands-on experience with developer tools like Git Docker Kubernetes and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
Product-oriented spirit with the ambition to deliver the best experience to our internal customers
You have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) youre humble and you enjoy sharing & learning from others
You embrace change are able to take a step back prioritize and focus on added-value tasks
Fluent in English
Nice to have:
Knowledge of frameworks like Spring Spring Boot JUnit and Mockito
Experience with developer tools like Docker Kubernetes and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
Experience working with GCP (preferably) AWS or any equivalent Cloud platform
Familiar with databases relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL ones (Google Datastore)
What we have to offer
Hybrid status for this role : 2-3 days at the Office
4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
Financial support for home office equipment
Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
Employee Stock Ownership plan
25 days holiday per year RTT
Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
Mental health support through
Here is what your hiring journey will look like
a 45-min video-call with Maxime Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you understand your career expectations and answer your first questions
a 60-min video call with Solène Peltier-Maurin Manager of the Operated Buses Software Team to get to know you present you the team and discuss your technical fit for the role.
a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers
a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers
a 45-min video-call with Yannick Hoffsess Head-Of Engineering Bus and Train for vision fit and rounding off the process