Software Engineer - New innovative project

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.BlaBlaCar.com/DreamJobs

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:

  • Start from scratch to build a robust and scalable online service for our new product;

  • Interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders;

  • Be able to work with external tech services;

  • Help design and implement our APIs and backend (Python preferred but flexible);

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

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

  • Build a delayed payment system, and interacting with a third-party payment system.

You will have full autonomy regarding the language used among Python, Java or PHP.

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 or Ruby on Rails (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;

  • Strong culture of A/B testing, 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)
  • Compensation: 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 “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;
  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;
  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;
  • 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 4 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you for a phone interview, followed by two in-house interview sessions including a technical test.