Confirmed Android Engineer - Post Booking

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million active members a year to share a ride in 21 countries. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. With the mission to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, BlaBlaCar combines carpooling with bus journeys from over 5000 operators to offer a wide choice of affordable and sustainable travel solutions, all in one app.

In 2023, BlaBlaCar’s trusted community connected 2.4 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 104 million human encounters. Carpool drivers saved 513 million euros, and all BlaBlaCar’s mobility services contributed to avoiding 2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Job Description

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

Your Mission

We are looking for a Confirmed Android Engineer to join our Post-booking full-stack squad at BlaBlaCar. Within the squad, you'll work on building and fine-tuning top-quality features which enable our passengers to enjoy a smooth and serene post-purchase experience, from real-time bus tracking to seamless ticket exchange; our ultimate objective being to elevate our customers’ satisfaction and loyalty.

As a Confirmed Android Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively with your squad mates and your stakeholders on the design and the delivery of these product features from the early-stage conception to the final roll-out. Beyond the actual implementation, you'll be empowered to own and impact each phase of our projects' lifecycle.

You will be reporting to Alexandre, Engineering Manager of the squad, and will join a full-stack squad composed of 6 engineers, supported by a Product Manager and a UX Designer. You will also be part of the transversal Android chapter composed of the 11 Android Engineers dedicated to BlaBlaCar's mobile application.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production
• Design, architect and develop Post-Booking features for the BlaBlaCar application
• Be responsible for the quality of the Android application, and contribute to improving it
• Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes
• Conduct code reviews

Your skills and qualifications

• 3+ years experience building Android apps with a strong engineering culture
• Experience with MVVM architecture and clean architecture
• Experience working on RESTful API, Dagger, Retrofit, Kotlin, Kotlin coroutines, unit and integration tests
• You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a strong product focus, you appropriately set the needle between technical quality and time-to-market
• You have good communication skills, you enjoy sharing & learning from others, you’re able to adapt your communication to non-technical stakeholders
• You’re a team player, willing to positively tweak and improve our team’s ways of working, favoring team communication and agreements over theoretical or dogmatic approaches
• You embrace change, are able to take a step back, and focus on added-value tasks
• You have a results-driven and product-oriented mindset
• You’re fluent in English

What we have to offer

• Full remote possible in the country of the role (+ access to BlaBlaCar co-working spaces in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes and Sophia Antipolis)
• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
• Financial support for home office equipment
• Relocation package and visa support
• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
• Employee Stock Ownership plan
• 25 days holiday per year + RTT
• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
• a 45-min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• a 60-min video-call with Alexandre, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
• a 60-min design case with Software Engineers, going deeper into your technical skills in problem solving
• a 60-min Live coding / Pair programming with Software Engineers
• a 60-min Code review with Software Engineers
• a 30-min video-call with Gilles, VP Engineering, for vision fit and rounding off the process

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application.