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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Creata il 05-02-2019
Location Paris

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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.

The Engineering and Product 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. We are also migrating from an on premise deployment to a cloud provider;

  • 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, Python, PHP/Symfony2, KafKa, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis.

Job Description

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:

  • Reporting to the Engineering Manager, in a team of 8 developers
  • Being in charge of tech solution choices, from architecture design to effective delivery in production
  • Spending more than half of your time as an individual engineering contributor within the team
  • Encourage the transition from an on-premise architecture to a cloud base solution by understanding how to leverage best our cloud provider abilities
  • Driving the developments (java preferred but not mandatory) and animating the software lifecycle  
  • 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:

  • 5-8 years’ experience in engineering teams within hyper-growth tech companies
  • Strong track record of technical contributions
  • Master 2+ tech languages (at least one object-oriented language) 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
  • Comfortable with change, uncertainty and a high velocity environment, experience of agile methods
  • Hands-on, pragmatic and collaborative attitude
  • Fluent in spoken and written English, proficiency French is a plus

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:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters 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

  • Many team gathering: weekly breakfast and drinks, dinners, parties

  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment

  • 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 two/three in-house interview sessions and a test.

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

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