Confirmed Backend Engineer, BlaBlaCar
Care Squad
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Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
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Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
BlaBlaCar's mission is to leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context
- You are fluent in Java and have knowledge of frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit and Mockito
- You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker and Kubernetes
- You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern
- You have good communication skills, you’re humble and you're a team player
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Fit with our BlaBlaPrinciples
What the job involves
- We are looking for a confirmed backend Software Engineer to join the Care team, where you will focus on building the backoffice powering the daily work of hundreds of customer relation agents
- Your role will be to contribute as part of a full stack team to delivering the most efficient tooling for a 360 view of our members across all our supplies (carpool, train, buses)
- Participating in the design, development, and maintenance of our Java services that empower various automation and serve the backoffice frontend
- Participating in the whole application lifecycle, meaning: early meetings, design, development, test strategy, deployment to production, observability, and support
- Participating in the definition of the projects with the product team to find the most relevant solutions for our customer relation agents
- Interacting with people with different roles and backgrounds, and sharing your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product, and business experts
Application process
- A 45-min video call with Marion, Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations, and answer your questions
- A 60-min video call with Francois, Engineering Manager to get to know the team and the projects you will be working on
- A 90-min video call with two of our engineers to run a Live Coding exercise along with a code review
- A 60-min video call with two of our engineers to assess your problem-solving skills through a Design exercise
- A 30-min video call with Sébastien, VP of Engineering to give you a more strategic view on our engineering directions
- Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days, offers usually come within 48 hours
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.
BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace for connecting travelers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.
Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$109.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $559.2m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- A fair & competitive salary package
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company values
- Be The Member - We are users of our service, members of our community
- Share more. Learn more - We learn and grow collectively as a team
- Fail. Learn. Succeed - We are innovating, taking risks, building an entirely novel solution, walking on unbeaten paths
- Dream. Decide. Deliver - Great ideas come with bold decisions, and the diligence to deliver on them
- Be lean. Go far - A creative start-up spirit is nurtured by frugality and a smart use of resources that will enable long-term sustainable growth
- Fun & Serious - When you take what you do at heart, and work seriously, there is room for everyone to have fun together, and enjoy the ride
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
Founders
Frédéric Mazzella
(President)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO)Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.
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