Senior Software Engineer - Backend ( 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

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Trip Search Team, which today consists of 5 Software Engineers and 1 Engineering Manager. 

You will take part in building the heart of our new technical platform based on a state of the art service oriented architecture and contributing to build the algorithms behind the search engine that allow us to match millions of travelers together.

The core of our stack is composed of : Java, Spring boot, Big table, Kubernetes, GCP, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL.

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:

• Building new, exciting features in the engine that serves search queries on the BlaBlaCar platform and aims to find the best match between drivers and passengers;

• Enabling passengers to find the method of transportation that corresponds to their needs;

• Continuing extracting functionality from the monolith driving towards our SOA (service oriented architecture);

• Participating in the definition of the features with the product and design teams to find the most relevant solutions for our members;

• Deep diving into our new cloud based infrastructure on GCP exploring more advanced features like fully automated, continuous rollouts;

• Participating in the definition of the architecture to find the best solutions to achieve high performance and reliability;

• Fostering positive atmosphere around excellence and ambitious goals in your team;

• Encouraging skills development of your fellow colleagues;

• Ensuring qualitative documentation of tech decisions and code to allow smooth onboarding of newcomers on any given project.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

• 5+ years experience in tech companies; 

• Good knowledge of service oriented architecture and architectural patterns;

• Fluency in object oriented language development and eager to constantly learn new technologies;

• Practical knowledge of ops tools (monitoring, deployment, containers, linux…) and willingness to contribute in building a true DevOps environment;

• Curiosity and open-mindedness;

• Product oriented mindset

• Fluent English (both written and spoken), and proficiency in French is a plus.

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role : 

• Start: As soon as you are ready!
• Location: Paris HQ (remote friendly) 
• Contract: Permanent contract 

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 2 weeks.  If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you to a first call followed by two interviews with analytical tests and case study. 

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