Software Engineer - Monetize (Booking)

  • Full-time

Company Description

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

For more information about us, please visit www.blablacar.com/dreamjobs

Job Description

Why join us?

One of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered transportation network in the world. The Monetize tribe at BlaBlaCar aims at monetizing our various markets, by delivering a best in class payment and booking experience to our users.

To fulfill this ambition, you will join a dedicated, agile and cross-skilled Booking squad, operating as a mini-startup within BlaBlaCar. The roadmap of the squad fits into the broader ambition of the Monetize Tribe. The squad is comprised of great profiles with a strong entrepreneurial mindset: engineers, UX designer, product manager and data scientists. You will also belong to the larger Tech group; a talented crew of developers spread across the organization in other agile teams with whom you can share core skills and knowledge.

Within the squad, you will play a driving role in the monetization of new countries as well as improving our existing booking system.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Ensuring the best booking experience for our members to fulfill our ambition of being the greatest global transportation network;
  • Improving the success of our passengers through optimization, guided by data-driven processes and decisions of our system;
  • Providing a smooth transition when we introduce our booking system for the first time in each new country, with intuitive UX and added-value features.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Product-oriented engineer, showing real empathy to the user;
  • Strong implication on the product development lifecycle, from the concept to the launch;
  • Be sensitive to UI/UX concerns;
  • Assertive contribution to the decision making process and team roadmap;
  • Strong culture of A/B testing, decisions led by impact and care for the big picture;
  • Willingness to learn new skills and information;
  • Decision-maker and ability to take decisions in accordance with the whole team;
  • Firm believer that "Done is better than perfect" and that "The member is the boss" are compelling values;
  • Fun team spirit that embraces the power that scrum assigns to developers;
  • Minimum technical requirements: PHP;
  • Experience with Symfony 2, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch highly appreciated.

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; 
  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;
  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;
  • Free ridesharing 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 us, please send your CV (PDF format) and answers to our questions in English; note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all 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 an online test and a phone interview, followed by two in-house interview sessions of which one includes a technical test. 


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