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Software Engineer

Created on 11-05-2018
Location Paris

Description

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?

Our dedicated team at BlaBlaCar is building a new product line that is going to revolutionize the way people do and think their carpooling trips!

To fulfill this ambition, you will join a small dedicated agile cross-skills team, operating as a mini-startup within BlaBlaCar. This team is comprised of great profiles with a strong entrepreneurial mindset. You will work closely with software engineers, product managers, UX designers and business analysts to answer our challenges.

What you will contribute to:

  • Building a robust and scalable online service for our new product;

  • Interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders (product managers, business analyst, engineers, etc);

  • Being able to work with external tech services;

  • Helping design and implementing our APIs and backend (Java preferred but flexible);

  • Making everyone’s life easier at BlaBlaCar by building monitoring tools;

  • Being able to build an architecture in service or micro-services (depending on the need).

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • A startup mentality where iterating fast and delivering with quality is key to the success of the project;

  • Minimum technical requirements: Python, Java, PHP (ideally more than one);

  • Experience in cache management, dealing with asynchronous messages and SPA highly appreciated;

  • Out of the box thinking and mindset of constant knowledge sharing;

  • Decisions led by impact and care for the big picture;

  • Assertive contribution to the decision making process and team roadmap;

  • Firm belief that “Done is better than perfect” and that “The member is the boss” are compelling values;

  • A fun attitude.

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris

  • Contract: Long-term contract (CDI)

  • Benefits: Competitive package combined with challenging career opportunities in a high-growth environment

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 two weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a phone interview, followed by two/three in-house interview sessions.

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

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