Junior Backend Engineer - Post-Booking

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 Junior Backend 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 Junior Backend 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 composed with 6 engineers, supported by a Product Manager and an UX Designer.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production.

• Participate in the technical design, development, and maintenance of the Java microservices that serve the Post-Booking flows for the BlaBlaCar platform.

• Participate in the whole application lifecycle, from early meetings and design to development, test strategy, and deployment - and of course, monitoring, alerting, and support.

• Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, set-up and enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes, conduct code reviews.

Your skills and qualifications

• You have a first experience in Java and its frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito.

• You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern.

• Some knowledge or prior experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Datadog is a plus

• 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’re fluent in English.

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

• 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)

• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

• Mental health support through Moka.care

Interested in joining the ride?

• a 45-min video-call with Maxime, 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 90-min live coding session with software engineers

• a 60-min design interview with software engineers

• a 30-min video-call with Gilles, 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.

Not sure yet? 

Check out our 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar!

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.