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Why Join BlaBlaCar
Vision
To create an entirely new, global, people powered, transport network.
Benefits
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Vacancy opened
06-09-2019
Location:
São Paulo
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We’re an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of 60+ million members to transform the way people travel across the world!
Job Description
Why joining us?
One of BlaBlaCar’s key strategic goals is to foster a highly engaged community of users. The Community Relations Team at BlaBlaCar aims at providing assistance to this community, by listening to users, guiding them and satisfying them. This ensures our members an enriching and trustworthy experience. The Community Relations Team is answering questions and requests in 30 different languages, every day and 7 days a week.
What you will directly contribute to:
Moderating member profiles and their content (vehicle pictures, trips, etc.)
Answering members’ messages in a timely manner
Providing users with guidance and support through various channels (tickets, chat & phone) at high-quality level (we offer a 100% response service)
Overseeing the overall activity on our social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and maintaining dynamics within the Brazilian and Mexican community
Gathering members' feedback and communicating it to the Tech Team
Reporting to the Associate Manager
Improving the overall member experience
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful
Proven ability to prioritize busy workloads
Sincere willingness to fairly balance our business and members' needs
Strong ability to work on his own while being dynamic and hardworking
Strong knowledge of the internet ecosystem
A prior experience using the service as a driver and/or a passenger would be a plus
Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and a relentless doer
Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: Early October
Location: Sao Paulo office + homeworking
Contract: CLT contract, 1 year (renewable)
Working hours: 40 hours per week, including 2-4 days in the office + evenings and weekends from home
Compensation: According to the market and position
What we offer all of our employees:
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply here: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer to our questions. You might have to answer a question in your mother tongue or in the language of the position you’re applying for. Please note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will send you a first video test. Then, we will invite you for various interviews with our Community Relations Team.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
01-07-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel.
BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network.
Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018 a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too!
In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience.
BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.
Job Description
Why join us?
BlaBlaCar is launching a new business line that is set to fuel tremendous growth for the company.
As Head of Global Bus Operations, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute to building a new vertical at BlaBlaCar. We are looking for someone who has the grit and motivation to join the entrepreneurial adventure.
Your mission is to manage and coordinate bus operations across all markets. In this role you will grow your skills in operations excellence, crisis management, communication and team management. You will manage a team in charge of Safety & Quality, Traffic control and Ground experience. You will have close interactions with our local teams (Country managers, Bus Operations Managers, Bus partners …) and central team.
As such, the role requires a strong commitment, humility, organisation and inter-personal skills.
What you will directly contribute to:
Management and coordination of bus operations : managing bus stops, quality and security process, presence in hubs, customer experience
Be the central point of contact for our local Operational teams regarding the operational business
Manage a team of bus operation specialists
Define and implement our operations excellence (safety & quality standards, audits, customer satisfaction, ect)
Ability to manage complexity on the ground
Ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful
15+ years of experience in bus transport operations
Robust, ability to deal with complex situations on the ground
Be humble, structured, organized, rational and a relentless doer
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Operational agility and solution-driven mindset
Fluent in English, good level of German is a plus
Owner of a driver’s licence and willingness to travel
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris
Contract: Permanent contract and Fixed-term contract
Compensation: Competitive package based on experience
What we offer all of our employees:
The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too.
A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture
An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)
State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location
And some other great perks!
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”.
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)
A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and and any relevant content that you'd like to share, explaining why you'd like to join.
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a series of interviews.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
27-06-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel.
BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network.
Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018 a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too!
In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience.
BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.
Job Description
One of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered travel network in the world. To achieve that goal, we set ourselves high and ambitious targets, bringing tech and data to the heart of a renewed product experience and company strategy.
The engineering team:
Two of the key company priorities for the next 12 months are:
the ongoing migration from a monolith architecture to a service-oriented architecture, from a PHP/Symfony stack towards a Java / JS- dominated one.
exciting product evolutions, based on smart geo-matching and practical algorithms that give a personalized experience to each individual user.
By joining our Engineering team, you will be working alongside talented individuals grouped in small agile teams that each have strong ownership on their piece of these goals.
The core of our stack is composed of Java, React, Android, Swift, Go, PHP/Symfony2, KafKa, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis.
To structure our Engineering team, we are looking for highly performing individuals with strong technical background, that are driven by positive impact on end users.
By joining the Trip team, you’ll be building the heart of our new technical platform based on a state of the art service oriented architecture. We are building the algorithms behind the search engine that allow us to match millions of travellers together.
As Senior Software Engineer, your role is to lead the design of our solutions, making sure they are robust and scalable. You will also contribute to the development of the stack by developing features, guiding younger engineers in their choices and helping them to build a cloud compatible architecture.
What you will directly contribute to:
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris
Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
Benefits: Competitive package according to profile and experience, combined with a career development plan
What we offer all of our employees:
The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too.
A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture
An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)
State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location
And some other great perks!
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”.
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)
The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment
A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a (list the different steps of the process here).
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
25-06-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
At BlaBlaCar, we imagine a fairer, more open world of travel; where people are given the independence to connect with the places they love - and each other. BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. With the recent integration of a coach network, our aim is to become the go-to for shared road mobility.
Job Description
BlaBlaCar is launching a new business line that is set to fuel tremendous growth for the company.
As a Business Analyst, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute to the expansion of the European bus market. You will be integrated to a dynamic and ambitious team whose objective is to improve the existing applications and find new solutions for the most optimal and performant distribution according to the business needs.
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for the optimal operation condition, quality of B2B digital evolutions: web portals, mobile apps, APIs.
What you will contribute to:
Gathering user needs and studying the different possible functional solutions,
Studying and validating the IS solutions in strong collaboration with the technical teams,
Coordinating and selecting the providing of business deliveries (user stories, needs expression…),
Organizing and executing tests phases,
Guarantying level 1 users support,
Managing change towards users : trainings, documentation, user guide.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
1+ year proven experience in IS analysis or project management
First experience in mobile application or web/API projects
First experience in distribution tools is a strong plus
Written and spoken French and English skills
Curious mindset with autonomy and proactivity
Excellent interpersonal skills
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris HQ
Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
Compensation: Competitive package based on experience
What we offer all of our employees:
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos
What is next ?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will first invite you to an interview call followed by a case study and 2 onsite interviews.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
17-06-2019
Location:
Kyiv
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.
Job Description
Why join us?
Marketing is at the core of our growth strategy and is one of the most important levers we use to acquire new and retain current users globally.
As a Marketing Intern you will be joining a very skilled and motivated team and work closely with Marketing and Communication Managers of BlaBlaCar Ukraine. Our goal is to accelerate BlaBlaCar's growth. Thus, the role requires a sharp, analytical mind and an entrepreneurial spirit as well as good communication skills.
What you will learn:
How Marketing and Communication strategy is developed
What are the key channels BlaBlaCar uses to deliver this strategy
How reporting and budgeting works
Learn best practices in marketing and communications from colleagues in Europe and LATAM.
Gain experience working in an international environment
What will you directly contribute to:
Budget control and reporting, invoicing process
Cooperation with central experts to deliver channels strategy (Google Ads, Facebook, etc.)
Analysis of the existing marketing mix
Ideas generation for display campaigns and designer management
Partners integration analysis and recommendations preparation
Create content for corporate communications and SMM
Generate ideas for cross-channel communication of new features and product releases
Participate in bi-weekly conference calls of marketing and communication teams to exchange best practices and roadmaps
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
At least 1 year of work experience (preferably in Marketing)
Understanding and knowledge of online marketing metrics (CPC, CPL, etc…) is a big plus
Proficiency in Excel
Both creative and analytical mindset
Problem solving skills
Fluent in English (Other languages are appreciated)
Experience with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager is an advantage
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Lovely Kyiv
Contract: 6-month internship
What we offer all of our employees
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos
What is next
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format).
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for an analytical test followed by 2/3 interviews.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
17-06-2019
Location:
Milan
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform 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 network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.
Job Description
Why join us?
We’re looking for a part-time Office Manager & Team Assistant to join our BlaBlaCar team in Milan. You will find and set up a new office space in Milan for the local team, whilst providing support for other administrative tasks. You will join a dynamic team within an ever-scaling company that now boasts more than 350 employees across 10 countries worldwide.
What you will directly contribute to:
Identifying the new Milan office for the local team and coordinate everything is necessary to set it up
Negotiating contracts with suppliers and take care of office bills and supplies
Maintaining a positive and friendly work environment, organizing team events and team building initiatives, take care of team well being and team benefits.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
Previous experience as Office manager, Executive Assistant, Event coordinator
Fluent written and spoken English is a must
Ability to create and maintain a friendly, welcoming and warm atmosphere in the office
Excellent team-work attitude and ability to execute and deliver on projects in a timely manner
IT knowledge is a plus
Basic accounting knowledge and experience
Attention to details, organized and thorough with a desire for continuous improvements
Experienced use of Microsoft Office (especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook).
Self-confident, uses good judgment and able to make sound decisions
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Milan
Contract: Part time 16 hours/week, Contract type according to experience
Competitive compensation
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below by uploading your resume in English (PDF format).
Please note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will contact you for a phone interview.
Vacancy opened
27-03-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We’re an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of 60+ million members to transform the way people travel across the world!
Job Description
Why join us?
One of BlaBlaCar’s key strategic goals is to provide the best service to our members. The Business Intelligence Team at BlaBlaCar aims to extract insights from data to help all other teams deliver the most impactful innovations and to carry out our own data science projects using Statistics, A/B testing and Machine Learning .
While using BlaBlaCar, members can interact with each other through ratings, trip descriptions or pictures. You will work in close collaboration with our Community Relation Team to build state of the art content moderation tools and make sure only appropriate content is allowed on the platform.
What you will directly contribute to:
Build a POC to automate content moderation (image or text)
Find new features and data cleaning to add to our current models
Benchmark your model against the current ones
Share your findings and results with the rest of the team
If the POC is successful, rollout new model (on our internal API or in the cloud)
Build reporting and monitoring about the new algorithm
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
Engineering school, PhD or Master degree in Math, Stats, OR, ML, Engineering. Having taken course in Statistics & Machine learning.
Proficiency in Python
Knowledge of Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit and Xgboost
Demonstrate past projects (Kaggle or else) where you used Deep Learning
Autonomous, detail-oriented
Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others
Fluent in English (French is not mandatory)
Bonus: you have worked with cloud tools (AWS, GCP) and you have deployed model in production environment
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris HQ
Contract: Internship (3 to 6 months, 6 months preferred)
What we offer all of our employees:
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos
What is next:
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will first invite you to an interview call followed by a case study and 2 onsite interviews.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
05-02-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform 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 network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.
Job Description
Why join us?
The Database Reliability Engineers, part of the Foundations Team are responsible for designing, building and maintaining BlaBlaCar’s stateful infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The team’s work ensures that our community of over 60 million members uses a fast and reliable platform where databases are never a problem!
We think ahead. We move fast. We like bleeding-edge technologies. Oh and by the way: everything we run here is in containers, yes, even the databases !
What you will directly contribute to:
Designing, building and improving parts of our infrastructure to address scaling needs and resiliency in a fast-moving international environment;
Developing tools and services to ease the work of developers with the perfect trade between ownership and good practices consistency:
Designing and building systems to automate away problems;
Responding to, investigating and fixing service issues.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful?
Relevant experience working in a system engineering role;
Comfortable with databases concepts (clustering, replication, indexing, backup strategy…);
Familiar with and enthusiastic for polyglot persistence infrastructures (ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis…);
Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals;
Good coding skills in at least one programming language;
Passion for solving problems using open source software;
Excellent communication skills;
Proficiency in English, French is a plus (other languages are appreciated).
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris HQ
Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
Compensation: Competitive package based on experience
What we offer all of our employees:
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Possibility to do a BlaBlaSwap once a year and go work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos
The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment
Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.
Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 4 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a first call, 3/4 interviews and a test.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Vacancy opened
05-02-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform 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 network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.
Job Description
Why join us?
The Foundations Team is responsible for designing, building and maintaining BlaBlaCar’s core infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The team’s work ensures that our community of over 60 million members uses a fast and reliable platform.
We think ahead. We move fast. We like bleeding-edge technologies. Oh and by the way: everything we run here is in containers !
What you will directly contribute to:
Designing, building and improving parts of our infrastructure to address scaling needs and resiliency;
Developing tools and services to ease the work of developers;
Designing and building systems to automate away problems;
Responding to, investigating and fixing service issues.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful?
Relevant experience working in a system and/or software engineering role;
Good knowledge of shell scripting and at least one systems oriented language (Go, python...);
Passion for shipping well engineered and well tested code;
Deep knowledge of Linux and TCP/IP networking fundamentals;
Experience with large scale production systems and web technologies;
Good knowledge of configuration management and monitoring systems;
Ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving international environment;
Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently;
Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
Fluent in English, French is a plus (other languages are appreciated).
And it would be nice (not required) if you had:
Knowledge of container and process isolation technologies;
Experience with large continuous integration/deployment systems;
Knowledge in network infrastructure;
Commits to open-source projects;
International work or study experience is a significant advantage.
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role:
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris
Contract: Long-term contract
Benefits: Competitive package combined with challenging career opportunities in a high-growth environment
What we offer all of our employees:
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;
The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;
Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;
Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;
And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs
What is next?
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English. Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following two weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements,we will invite you for a phone interview, followed by in-house interview sessions.
Vacancy opened
05-02-2019
Location:
Paris
Company Description
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform 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 network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.
Job Description
One of BlaBlaCar’s key strategic goals is to leverage data through Machine Learning in order to trigger growth opportunities. Data Science has been instrumental to successfully launching new services for the past two years, yet the potential for improvements is still massive. If you are looking for exciting challenges, impacting millions of users and working on a state-of-the-art cloud platform, come and join us!
What you will directly contribute to
Leverage machine learning algorithms to help passengers and drivers efficiently find the best BlaBlaCar carpooling at the right price
Contributing to pioneering research on experimentation in marketplaces with the goal to develop an efficient methodology for A/B testing
Developing models to explain matching between passengers and drivers, crunching through massive geospatial and behavioral data sets
POC use-cases where machine learning can have the greatest impact from marketing and fraud to new product features.
Recommending and work with software engineers to implement real-time solutions to maximize millions of users’ chances of travelling with BlaBlaCar.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful
Hold an advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Operations Research.
Have a minimum 4+ years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, building predictive machine learning models in production.
Strong knowledge of Machine Learning theory, statistics and probabilities.
Demonstrate excellent programming skills in SQL and Python. Experience working on the Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
Demonstrate previous use of machine learning packages: scikit, xgboost, keras ...
Have some experience applying data science techniques to geospatial data a plus
Possess good communication skills: you are able to explain your models clearly to both analysts and decision makers.
Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and a relentless doer
Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others
Be fluent in English
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role :
What we offer all of our employees:
What is next:
If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and your cover letter. Applications without cover letter will not be considered. Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you to a first call followed by several face-to-face interviews and a case study.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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