Confirmed Backend Engineer - Daily

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.

About BlaBlaCar Daily

We’re looking for people to join our journey on BlaBlaCar Daily. We are an independent business unit growing fast following the acquisition of Klaxit in March 2023. We are about 100 people working together to build the best commute carpooling solution. We are actively developing and testing the product in France, Belgium and Switzerland with thousands of daily carpoolers.

You will join a small team of engineers operating independently of other products at BlaBlaCar and contributing actively to the software development of the product. This can include matching of driver and passengers and carpool features, as well as new features to be adapted from Klaxit into Daily following the integration of both products. The current project goal is to iterate quickly and take over the commuting carpooling market by bringing together the best of BlaBlaCar Daily and Klaxit. Our team is composed of experienced people that have worked on successful services before. The job provides a lot of opportunities to learn and grow.

Your Mission

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join us on the development of BlaBlaCar Daily on the Features squad. You will work on technical challenges and product feature developments related to topics such as member profiles, matching, booking request, validation of trips. You will be involved in all parts of the development, from the early conception meetings, development and test strategy, to deployment in production, on-call, observability, and support. You will mainly work on backend features with occasional contributions to our frontend projects.

Your responsibilities

1. Participate in the whole application development lifecycle, including: early-stage product meetings, architecture design, development, tests strategy, deployment to production, monitoring, alerting and support.
2. Support and collaborate with other engineers on the team to develop our backend projects together.
3. Adapt existing feature implementations to growing scalability challenges.
4. Develop new functionality to meet internal and external demands required for Daily to remain compliant in the markets we operate in.

Your qualifications

1. At least 3 years of experience in back end development.
2. Our internal stack is Python (Flask), if you have experience on Django or APIrest it’s a good fit too.
3. Familiar with databases; especially relational ones like PostgreSQL (extension PostGis).
4. Computer science background (database design, algorithms and data structures, networking, abstractions, security).
5. Ability to find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery.
6. Ability to take a research problem from conception to production-ready for our users.
7. Fluent in English.

And it would be nice (not required) if you had:

1. Experience with developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions.
2. Experience with OSRM or GraphHopper, and graph optimization algorithms.

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!

What we have to offer

1. Full remote possible in the country of the role.
2. 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid.
3. Financial support for home office equipment.
4. Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides.
5. Employee Stock Ownership plan.
6. 25 days holiday per year + RTT.
7. Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France).
8. 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable).
9. Mental health support through Moka.care.

Interested in joining the ride?

1. a 45-min video-call with Maxime, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions.
2. a 60-min video-call with Benjamin, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team.
3. a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers.
4. a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers.
5. a 30-min video-call with Ricardo, VP Engineering, for vision fit and rounding off the process.

Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days, offers usually come within 48 hours.

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.