Lead Software Engineer Full-stack - BlaBlaBus Sales

  • 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

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to build our tech guild in Pro Distribution Team, which today consists of 1 analyst, 2 Project Managers  and 1 Engineering Manager, you will be reporting to. The Pro Distribution team’s challenge is to create the best channels for selling B2B and B2C products on our bus market activities. 

As Lead Software Engineer, your role is to lead the design of our solutions, making sure they are robust and scalable. You will take a major role in the future of various Bus distribution tools used by different actors (bus drivers, ticket offices, operation support...).

You will also contribute to the development of an in-house developers’ team. 

You will take part in re integrating in-house our web and mobile applications that are today outsourced by suppliers. 

The core of our stack is mainly composed of Java, ReactJS, Docker & Kubernetes.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Developing products in collaboration with product owners;

  • Being a creative force on changes and technical solutions to improve our products;

  • Participate in building a team and leading it thanks to the support of the whole BlaBlaCar Engineering Team 

  • Being responsible for the migration of services BlaBlaCar’s cloud infrastructure; 

  • Participating in the definition of the architecture to find the best solutions to achieve high performance and reliability;

  • Being responsible of service ownership performance thanks to BlaBlaCar Infrastructure team;

  • Implementing development best practices and following them;

  • Working in a strong and close relationship with tech teams to guarantee standardization within the BlaBlaCar brand.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful at : 

  • 5+ years experience in tech companies with a strong engineering culture;

  • Good knowledge of service oriented architecture and architectural patterns;

  • Prior experience with Java and any other experience in ReactJS, Native Android or Ruby On Rails is a plus; 

  • Practical knowledge of ops tools (monitoring, deployment, containers, linux…) and willingness to contribute in building a true DevOps environment, knowledge of Google Cloud Platform is a plus;

  • Comfortable with change, uncertainty and a high velocity environment, experience of agile methods;

  • Curiosity and open-mindedness;

  • Team player with a hands-on attitude and sense of humour;

  • Product oriented mindset

  • Fluent English (both written and spoken), and proficiency in French is a plus.

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role : 

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!
  • Location: Paris HQ 
  • Contract: Permanent contract 

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
  • Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
  • Weekly Tech Demos

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 2 weeks.  If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you to a first call followed by two interviews with analytical tests and case study. 

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