Data Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading carpooling platform, created with one dream in mind: leveraging technology to fill the millions of empty seats on the road. We offer long- and short-distance carpooling as well as a bus marketplace, with the mission to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility.

Today, our community counts over 90 million travellers in 22 countries, creating a smarter, friendlier and carbon-saving transport network. Every year, our community saves 1.6 million tons of CO2e by sharing the road, equivalent to the CO2 emissions generated by Paris traffic in a year. But it doesn’t stop here – our team of 250+ engineers is developing innovative algorithms to further unlock the potential of shared travel and multiply its impact.

We’re looking for people to join our journey – people who care, who are driven by impact and innovation, and who want to thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. We offer a flexible workplace where we count on each other to take initiative. So join the ride – we can’t wait to see where it takes you.

Job Description

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Taking a central part of our team and joining us in providing dependable data to BlaBlaCar global organization

  • Modelling and enrichment of the warehouse

  • Researching and benchmarking tools to improve existing pipelines

  • Developing methods of automation for repetitive or ineffective usages of data 

  • Designing and delivering scalable data pipes to provide high-quality data to the whole organization, while controlling data reliability and security

  • Joining us in our vision to transform our data warehouse into a simple to use product 

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Business-oriented: interested in the decision making process of business units, experienced in translating business needs into data needs

  • Meticulous and detail-oriented

  • Confident to advise to analysts and challenge their needs

  • Able to work well within a team and on shared projects

  • Advanced SQL

  • Experience with cloud tools (AWS, GCP) - advantage  

  • Hands-on experience with Airflow, Docker - advantage

  • Coding experience (python/ Java/ Go or similar) 

  • Fluent in English (French is not mandatory)

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!
  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
  • Location: Paris, France - Currently starting remotely.
  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience 

What we have to offer

  • 🌎 An international environment: over 35 nationalities across 7 countries: France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, Brasil, Poland.

  • 💡 Opportunities to learn: 360 onboarding weeks, weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn about what other teams are up to, International Weeks to mingle with other offices, regular Q&A sessions with our leadership, honest discussions about our company KPIs, ‘Fail, Learn, Succeed’ moments where we destigmatize and share moments of failure with others.

  • 🚀 Innovation: Coding Nights to pitch ideas outside our roadmap and make development dreams come true, weekly Product & Tech Demos and blogs to share engineering stories, access to top conferences across Europe.

  • 🌱 Impact: building a product that has a real impact on society and the environment, and sharing an office culture that prioritizes low-waste and eco-friendly practices.

  • 💜 People-first: wind down from work at our BlaBlaShows, BlaBlaBreak retreats, weekly breakfasts and afterworks (when the sanitary conditions permit it) or meme battles on Slack.

  • 🧭 Shared company principles that guide us in our everyday decision-making and bring us closer to our goal. Find out more about our BlaBlaPrinciples.

 

Your Future Benefits

  • 🏡 Tailor-made remote policy: from 2 days per week to full remote (to be discussed with the Talent Acquisition Manager during the first call).

  • 💰 A fair & competitive salary package

  • 🎈Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days

  • 🌍 Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based

  • 👶 Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)

  • 🎒 Trainings & career development programs

  • 🚗Free carpooling & 🚌 bus-rides wherever whenever

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 and profile fit our requirements, you will go through a 3-step interviewing process. 

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