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 !

What you will directly contribute to:

People: Ensure that the team has all it needs to function:

  • Managing engineers;

  • Recruiting engineers to complete the team;

  • Helping engineers to grow in every way;

  • Ensuring you will have the right team to reach objectives;

  • Ensuring a good mindset and keep a good culture in your team;

Roadmap manager:

  • Following your projects and working hand in hand with all the team to ensure speedy delivery;

  • Defining the roadmap with Leads and Engineers, and communicate about the goals status regularly;

  • Designing plans and then pushing them to completion;

  • Building and maintaining relationships with our partners;

Continuously removing obstacles and anticipating blockers to make our developers' lives easier, ensuring that our iterative development cycles run smoothly.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • A strong ability to manage developers;

  • A natural passion for managing web projects;

  • Strong track record of delivering and running tech stacks;

  • Demonstrate a solid knowledge of building rock-solid applications and tools;

  • Several years working with agile methods;

  • 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;

  • Excellent proficiency in French and in English.

Additional Information

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 “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.

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