BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We’re an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of 50+ million members to transform the way people travel across the world.

One of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered travel network in the world. To achieve that goal, we set ourselves high and ambitious targets, bringing tech and data to the heart of a renewed product experience and company strategy.

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/Symphony stack towards a Java / JS- dominated one.

• 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

To structure our Engineering team, we are looking for highly performing individuals with strong technical background, that are driven by impact on end users.

By joining the Service team, you’ll be building the heart of our new technical platform based on a state of the art service oriented architecture.

As Lead Engineer and reporting to an Engineering Manager, your role is to lead the design, development and scalable implementation of software for the team you’ll be working in.

Role and responsibilities within the organisation:

• Being in charge of tech solution choices, from architecture design to effective delivery in production.

• Ensuring the pace of daily delivery through agile processes (sprints, ceremonies, daily stand ups etc.)

• Spending >50% of your time as an individual engineering contributor within the team.

• Communicating constructively with stakeholders about estimated sizing, deadlines and evolution in delivery pace.

• 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 new comers on any given project.

• 5-8 years experience in engineering teams within hyper-growth tech companies.
• Strong track record in technical contribution.
• Master 2+ tech languages (Java is a strong plus) and eager to constantly learn new technologies.
• Engineering diploma 
• Several years working with agile methods.
• Comfortable with change, uncertainty and a high velocity environment.
• Entrepreneurial, hands-on, pragmatic and collaborative attitude. 
• Fluent in English, French is a plus.
  
  

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 “Think it. Build it. Use it.”

• 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.