Data Platform Engineering Manager

  • Full-time

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?

One of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered travel network in the world.

BlaBlaCar is reinventing its tech stack, moving from a monolith architecture to a SOA. Belonging our Tech team, you will be working with a talented crew of Engineers in various agile teams spread across the organization, with whom you will share your vision, manage projects and help the team to grow through process and recruitment.

Within the team, you will have autonomy and ownership to reach its goals. Our tech stack includes Java, React, Android, Swift, Go, Python, PHP/Symfony2, KafKa, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis and much more !

About the data-platform team

You will manage the data-platform team, which is in charge of all the data-engineering at BlaBlaCar :

- Collecting data from multiple sources (prod. database, service layer data, events tracking, third parties APIs)

- Building real-time and batch data pipelines

- Building and maintaining the data stack (Hadoop, Kafka, Vertica, Airflow, Tableau)

- Designing the DataWarehouse

- Assisting the analysts and data-scientists

- Guarantying data quality and reliability

What you will directly contribute to:

You will be in charge of a team composed by 5 people (2 data-engineers, 1 data-architect, 2 software developers)

Inside the team

- Leading the team and make the decisions taking easier

- Conducting the meetings and split the tasks

- Building the roadmap with the team

- Being responsible for the roadmap progress and ensure that critical blockers can be solved

- Improving the processes and methodology

- Bringing a strategic vision and choose the right tools for the team

- Maintaining a good technical level for everyone : training, conferences, ...

- Recruiting engineers to complete the team

Outside of the team

- Representing the team and be the main point of contact

- Centralizing the needs and prioritize tasks

- Communicating on each topics (progress and blockers)

- Evangelizing the usage of data in other teams

- Following the product evolutions to anticipate the future tasks and dependencies

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

- Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases

- Good knowledge of BigData eco-system : Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Flink, column-store and graph databases

- Good knowledge of cloud technologies, such as GCP or AWS

- Feel comfortable with backend software design : Service Oriented Architecture, Event Sourcing etc ...

- Knowledge of the Agile method

- Good communication skills (French and English are mandatory)

- Ensure a good mindset and keep a good culture in your team

- Be high-energy, humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and a relentless doer and leader

- Enjoy working as a team-player, quickly adapting to a fast-paced work environment and learning from others while being fun&serious

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris Center HQ

  • Contract: Long-term contract

  • Compensation: competitive package based on experience

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 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a first call followed by 2/3 in-house interview sessions.

 

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