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.

The engineering 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/Symfony 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 managing our Monetization team composed of 4 talented back-end engineers.

What you will directly contribute to:

As Engineering Manager, your role will be to ensure your team works in the most impactful and efficient way towards the company objectives. You’ll be responsible for building and sharing a tech vision, ensuring project delivery and developing your team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you’ll have autonomy in defining processes and the split of roles among your team. You’ll be accountable for results rather than processes.

• Building the roadmap, being accountable for its delivery and proactive communication to key stakeholders, according to business priorities.
• Defining the mid- and long-term technical strategy for this autonomous unit, ensuring quality of the code output and technological choices.
• Managing and developing a team of Software Engineers with various seniority levels (progression path, training, hiring, etc)
• Applying and sharing best practices across the Engineering team and the company as a whole.

What you will need to be successful:

• 5-8 years experience in engineering teams within hyper-growth tech companies

• Strong track record in technical contribution

• 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 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 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 3 onsite interviews.

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