Software Engineer Back-end - API Gateway & Authentication (remote)

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel. 

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.

Job Description

Why join us?

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.

By joining the Edge team, you'll be building services with the biggest traffic of our new technical platform based on a state of the art service oriented architecture. You will be working alongside talented individuals grouped in small agile teams of 6 engineers (to date) that each have strong ownership on their piece of these goals.

The core of our stack is composed of Java (Spring Boot), Go, KafKa, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP Cloud components.

What you will directly contribute to

  • Continue the ongoing migration to a fully Service Oriented Architecture;

  • Creating and maintaining services and tools from the collect part to visualizations for the data lake, which is the platform containing all the data used by data analysts, data scientists, marketing team;

  • Developing, maintaining and reviewing the API of BlaBlaCar at a high quality standard; 

  • Provide core-service library and framework for all BlaBlaCar backend teams;

  • Working in the security and authentication layer used from Frontend to Backend teams;

  • Deploying and operating your services to production and ensuring they are performing as expected through monitoring and instrumentation.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • A first significant experience in engineering teams within tech companies;

  • Comfortable with Object-Oriented language development (Java is a plus) and eager to constantly learn new technologies;

  • A first experience in data gathering, data processing or monitoring as well as other technologies such as Kafka or use cloud technology as Google Cloud 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, taking initiatives and collaborative attitude;

  • Fluent in spoken and written English, proficiency in 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:

  • The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too;

  • A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture; 

  • An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw);

  • State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location;

 

And some other great perks!

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”; 

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;

  • Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap);

  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment; 

  • Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe;
  • A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork;

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;

  • Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other;

  • Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands.

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 onsite interviews.

 

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