BlaBlaLines - Machine Learning Engineer (Algorithm & Matching) - Open to remote from France

Description

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?

BlaBlaLines is the carpooling service by BlaBlaCar focused on commuting. It is actively being developed and tested in France and Switzerland.

You will join a small team of engineers operating in true agile style at an early stage in the project. The current project goal is to iterate quickly and take over the commuting carpooling market.

Our team is composed of experienced people that have worked on successful services before. The job provides a lot of opportunities to learn.

What you will contribute to:

• Improve our matching algorithms to help drivers and passengers to better carpool together

• Improve our tooling to help us test our models and identify issues when computing the matches

• Adapt existing feature implementations to growing scalability challenges

• Respond to production issues as they arise

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

• At least 5 years of experience with a high-level language (Python, Java, C#, Go, etc.)

• Strong computer science background (database design, algorithms and data structures, networking, abstractions, security)

• Ability to take a research problem from conception to production-ready for our users

• Fluent in English.

And it would be nice (not required) if you had:

• Experience with Python 3

• Experience with OSRM and graph optimization algorithms

• Experience working with machine learning algorithms

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

• Start: As soon as you are ready!

• Location: Paris HQ (Open to full remote from France)

• Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

• 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)

• 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 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for an HR and technical phone interview, and a round of onsite interviews.

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