BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar

  • Aplicaciones móviles, Economía colaborativa, Movilidad
  • Paris, Izhevsk, Kiev, Madrid, Moscow, São Paulo, Warsaw
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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%

    Backend

    • Symfony
      Symfony
      100%
    • Spring-Boot
      Spring-Boot
      100%
    • MariaDB
      MariaDB
      100%
    • Kotlin
      Kotlin
      100%
    • Kafka
      Kafka
      100%
    • Java
      Java
      100%
    • Go
      Go
      100%
    • Redis
      Redis
      50%
    • RabbitMQ
      RabbitMQ
      50%
    • PostgREST
      PostgREST
      50%
    • Elasticsearch
      Elasticsearch
      50%
    • Python
      Python
      30%
    • PHP
      PHP
      20%

    Frontend

    • TypeScript
      TypeScript
      100%
    • Redux.js
      Redux.js
      100%
    • React JS
      React JS
      100%
    • React
      React
      100%

    Devops

    • Kubernetes
      Kubernetes
      100%
    • Istio
      Istio
      100%
    • Git
      Git
      100%
    • Google Cloud Platform
      Google Cloud Platform
      80%
    • Prometheus
      Prometheus
      50%
    • PagerDuty
      PagerDuty
      50%
    • Google Container Engine
      Google Container Engine
      50%
    • Terraform
      Terraform
      35%
    • AWS
      AWS
      10%

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 long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 100 million members in 22 countries. BlaBlaCar is creating an entirely new, people-powered, travel network that connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. With the recent integration of a coach bus network, and a commuter service for short-distance carpooling, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to marketplace for shared mobility.

With a dedicated member relations service, a state of the art web and mobile platform, novel insurance solutions and a fast-growing community, BlaBlaCar is making travel social, cost-effective and practical for millions of members. BlaBlaCar is continuously innovating, developing smart-stop and smart-pricing algorithms that dynamically unlock millions of possible local meeting points and, in effect, turn every highway into a major transport line while also allowing for more granular point-to-point service in less accessible areas. By doubling the number of people in cars (from 1,9 to 3,9 people), BlaBlaCar saved 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 in 2018 (the equivalent of traffic in Paris for a year).

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,
  • enjoy our yearly BlaBlaBreak which takes us all to a memorable 3-days of fun&serious activities
  • travel to one of our offices abroad during your annual BlaBlaSwap
  • carpool for free in exchange for recommendations on improving the service and many many more opportunities to be fun&serious together!

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