BlaBlaPro - Front-End / React Engineer

  • 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.

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.

Job Description

BlaBlaCar is launching a new product line for transport professionals that is set to fuel tremendous growth for the company. With the BlaBlaCar Pro product(s), we are building a new vertical at BlaBlaCar by opening our marketplace to bus transport partners. Our ambition is to become the n.1 destination for road transport in the coming years.

As front-end expert within this BlaBlaCar Pro project team, you’ll be building the heart of our new ecosystem dedicated to bus transport partners. You will play a key role in the development, support and maintenance our brand-new portal (Single Page Application) which aims at helping bus transport professionals to manage their offers, quality of their service and daily operations on our marketplace.    

Your strong technical expertise will feed our Product Managers and UX designers in the design of new features and product enhancement. Your sense of ownership and your pragmatism will help us to build state-of-the-art technical designs and to manage development of new features and core foundations of our pro portal, making sure they are robust and scalable.  

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Reporting to our Web Engineering Manager and contributing to our shared front-end codebase, internal librairies, CI platform and cross-company best practices
  • Building features on our pro portal within the BlaBlaCar Pro product team, made of software engineers, product managers and UX designers
  • Taking part in Product and UX definition, managing technical designs and development of new features, ensuring they are scalable, robust and easy to use
  • Providing technical expertise and support to multiple internal stakeholders (product managers, business analyst, data scientists, etc.)
  • Deploying and operating your applications to production, ensuring they are performing as expected through monitoring and instrumentation

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • 5+ years of experience in engineering teams within tech companies
  • Expertise in JavaScript (ES6, ES7), HTML5, CSS3;
  • Proven experience with JavaScript framework such as React or Angular in an API centric ecosystem;
  • Experience on Single Page Application or Progressive Web Application is a plus;
  • Experience on back-end technologies such as PHP Symfony, Java, is a plus.
  • Startup mindset where iterating fast and delivering with quality is key to the success of the project
  • Product-oriented spirit with the ambition to deliver the best experience to end-users
  • Hands-on, pragmatic and collaborative attitude
  • Fluent in spoken and written English, proficiency French is a plus
  • A fun and serious attitude

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!
  • Location: Paris HQ
  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
  • 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 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.​​​​​​​