About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 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 an Analytics Engineer to join the Bus & Train team at BlaBlaCar.

The company’s mission is to make BlaBlaCar the go-to marketplace for shared road travel (hence excluding airlines). To achieve this mission, we are currently developing other supplies than our historic carpool activity: we operate a marketplace of small bus carriers in Brazil and Eastern Europe, and we are soon going to sell train tickets from several European train operators. The Data Bus & Train team, part of the central Data team, bridges the distance from developers to business stakeholders providing & owning data pipelines from those two supplies. We build dashboards and algorithms to optimise the operations, evaluate the demand and provide key actionable insights for the business teams.

As an Analytics Engineer, your role is to own BlaBlaCar’s data from the raw layer to the reporting layer. You will work closely with Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to continuously provide data products to make decisions on the product. You will also contribute to the Data Engineering Chapter, a horizontal group of Data Engineers & Analytics Engineers, whose mission is to improve tools and make them more efficient in their day-to-day by innovative technologies, processes, etc. 

Your Responsibilities

Within the Data Bus & Train team, you will be working alongside Antoine, the other Analytics Engineer of the team, on:

• Building efficient and robust data models for large volumes of data

• Developing and optimising the data workflows from the raw layer to the data mart in our data platform

• Implementing solutions to improve the data quality

• Taking a central part in the Data Engineering Chapter, defining policies and standards for data management

Your Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience working as Analytics Engineer or Data Engineer

• You have experience using SQL (any SQL engine experience is appreciated; we use Bigquery)

• You understand of the ELT concept, as writing ELTs  will represent a significant part of your daily work

• You have experience working with a programming or scripting language (any is appreciated; we use Python with Cloud Composer/Airflow, on top of DBT)

• You have basic knowledge of UNIX, GIT

• Ideally, you are used to working with a Cloud provider (we use GCP)

• You are fluent in English 

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!

What we have to offer:

• Full remote possible in the country of employment

• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid

• Financial support for home office equipment

• 25 days holiday per year + RTT

• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)

• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

• Relocation package and visa support

• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides

• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs

• Employee Stock Ownership plan

• Regular team building events

• Mental health support through Moka.care

Interested in joining the ride?

Here’s what your hiring journey will look like:

• a 45 min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• a 45 min video-call with one Data Engineering Manager,  to evaluate your communication and teamwork skills

• a fully remote exercise to evaluate your technical skills, followed by a 90 min video-call with Antoine, your future colleague and another Data Engineer from the Data Engineering chapter to discuss your exercise and technical skills

• a 30-min video-call with Emmanuel Martin-Chave our VP Data to assess your growth mindset.

Usually, our hiring process lasts 20-25 days and offers come within 48 hours.

Not sure yet? Check out our 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar!

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application.