BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar

Confirmed Backend Engineer - Booking squad

Job summary
Permanent contract
Paris
A few days at home
Salary: Not specified
Skills & expertise
Teamwork
Communication skills
Problem-solving skills
Training and development
Team building
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Job description

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s 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 Booking team at BlaBlaCar. Their mission is to optimize our multimodal (Carpool, Bus, and Train supplies) booking and checkout experience for passengers, by integrating and unifying multiple heterogeneous inventory sources from external partners.

As confirmed Backend Engineer, your role will be to work on technical challenges and product feature developments from early-stage  conception, to development, testing strategy, deployment in production and monitoring. You will be working with a full-stack team of 10 developers. 

Your responsibilities

  • Lead the development of our new impactful features, from the early technical design to the actual rollout
  • Take part in the design definition of the services and their APIs to ensure they are scalable, robust and easy to use by Frontend developers
  • Interact with multiple business, product and engineering stakeholders from different roles, backgrounds and culture
  •  You’re definitely a team player, being eager to share and learn from your teammates and to grow altogether as a team

    • Your qualifications

  • 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, and 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
  • You are able  to take ownership, aligned with business priorities 
  • Full working proficiency in English
  • Fit with our BlaBlaPrinciples

    • What we have to offer

  • Hybrid status for this role
  • 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
  • 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
  • Financial support for home office equipment
  • Minimum 25 days holiday per year 
  • Local meal plan policy (Swile card)
  • 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
  • Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
  • Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
  • Employee Stock ownership plan
  • Regular team building events
  • 1 day off per year to test our product

    • Interested in joining the ride?

  • a 45-min video-call with your Talent Acquisition Manager Chloé Friess to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
  • a 60-min video-call with Clothilde Pennou, your Future Manager to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
  • a 90-min live coding session with two of our Backend Engineers
  • a 60-min video call to assess your problem-solving skills through a Design exercise with two of our Backend Engineers
  • a 30-min video-call with our Head of Engineering Louise Guibal for vision fit and rounding off the process

    • Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days, offers usually come within 48 hours.

    BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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