Meet Usman, Software Engineer
BlaBlaCar
Collaborative Economy, Mobile Apps, Mobility
Paris, Kiev, Madrid, Moscow, São Paulo, Warsaw
Team Tech
Key figures
- 250+: Number of engineers in more than 38 teams across multiple countries.
- 3200+, 100+: Number of pods and datastores running in the cloud (Google Cloud Platform with GKE).
- 5k: Average of qps on load balancers.
Employee Distribution
Engineering
72%
Data
13%
Product and design
15%
Symfony
100%Spring-Boot
100%MariaDB
100%Kotlin
100%Kafka
100%Java
100%Go
100%Redis
50%RabbitMQ
50%PostgREST
50%Elasticsearch
50%Python
30%PHP
20%TypeScript
100%Redux.js
100%React JS
100%React
100%Kubernetes
100%Istio
100%Git
100%Google Cloud Platform
80%Prometheus
50%PagerDuty
50%Google Container Engine
50%Terraform
35%AWS
10%
Backend
Frontend
Devops
Organization and methodologies
The engineering teams are organized into cross-functional squads by pillar (with alignment to the business) and systems.
Their work is planned in a quarterly roadmap process that aligns product and engineering, and most squads use scrum rituals with pair-programming in a 2-week delivery cadence. Team ceremonies normally include dailies, and bi-weekly sprint reviews.
Our agile coaches provide 3 training cycles per year. We also provide ad-hoc trainings/games and semester-long coaching missions. Our management practice empowers teams to try, fail, and learn together supporting that Agile mindset. Performance is evaluated twice a year, and OKRs are used to set diverse goals.
Recruitment process
Screening call The goal of our first interview is to get to know the candidate, understand their expectations, motivational drivers and check administrative details. It's also their chance to learn more about the recruitment process, the company, the team and the position.
Hiring Manager Interview It is a deeper dive into their experience, when you can expect more technical questions. The Hiring Manager will also be able to tell you further details about the role and provide information about the expectations of the team.
Online assessment In this phase they’ll receive either a test or a case study. Our objective will be to evaluate hard and soft skills according to the requirements needed for the position they are applying for.
VP Interview The goal of the final interview is to check that they are aligned with BlaBlaCar's values. They’ll get a wider vision of the department and its strategy.
Presentation
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 million active members a year to share a ride in 21 countries. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. With the mission to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, BlaBlaCar combines carpooling with bus journeys from over 4000 operators to offer a wide choice of affordable and sustainable travel solutions, all in one app.
In 2022, BlaBlaCar’s trusted community connected 2 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 90 million human encounters. Carpool drivers saved 450 million euros, and all BlaBlaCar’s mobility services contributed to avoiding 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
What they are looking for
The team is looking for agile software engineers, database reliability engineers, data scientists, mobile engineers, functional analysts, as well as community relations agents, product managers, marketing experts, design lovers and sales/account managers. BlaBlaCar is looking for people who dream, people who deliver, and people who love to learn and grow into their role. We are looking for genuine team players, who are truly committed to changing the future of mobility.
Last but not least, BlaBlaCar welcomes talented individuals who share its 6 team principles:
- “Be The Member.”
- “Dream. Decide. Deliver.”
- “Share More. Learn More.”
- “Fail. Learn. Succeed.”
- “Be Lean. Go Far.”
- “Fun&Serious.”
Good to know
As a BlaBlaEmployee, you will:
- start discovering our story and vision and get a warm welcome during your Onboarding Days,
- get an overview of ongoing projects during our team-all BlaBlaTalk
- have fun at our weekly afterwork or breakfast,
- innovate outside of the roadmap during one of our Coding Nights,
- work out at the Gym in our centrally-located Paris Office,
- attend top-notch Tech conferences in France or abroad,
- carpool for free in exchange for recommendations on improving the service and many many more opportunities to be fun&serious together!