Position: BlaBlaCar is looking for strong Java Software Engineer
Company: BlaBlaCar
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Company Description**

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 90 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. With the recent integration of a coach network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.

**Job Description**
**Why join us?**

In order to constantly improve its usage and service, BlaBlaCar has launched recently a new business line that is set to fuel tremendous growth for the company. By joining the BlaBlaCar Pro team, you will have the unique opportunity of joining a new vertical at BlaBlaCar and of helping us become the n.1 destination for road transport.

Within the Pro team, we are building the heart of our new technical platform dedicated to our bus transport partners. A brand-new ecosystem based on a service-oriented architecture that aims at helping worldwide bus companies to sell trips and manage their offers on our marketplace.    

By joining our experimented and talented tech team, you’ll contribute to the design and development of new services for bus professionals, making sure they are robust and scalable. You’ll build new platform features and you’ll manage the integration of new bus partners APIs. Thanks to your technical expertise and your communications skills you’ll work closely with our product and business experts as well as tech teams our partners.

 

**What you will directly contribute to:**

- Reporting to the Engineering Manager, in a team of 8 engineers 

- Building a robust and scalable backend that support BlaBlaCar websites and mobile apps, as well as connexions to external bus partners systems

- Taking part in the design definition of the services and their APIs to ensure they are scalable, robust and easy to use

- Interacting with multiple internal stakeholders (product managers, business analyst, data scientists, etc) and external bus partners tech teams

- Deploying and operating your services to production and ensuring they are performing as expected through monitoring and instrumentation

**Qualifications**
**What you will need to be successful:**

-3-5+ years of experience in engineering teams within tech companies

-Strong proficiency in Java (Spring) and Object-Oriented development

-Open and eager to constantly learn new technologies

-A first experience in a Service Oriented Architecture ecosystem as well as other technologies such as Kafka ClikHouse, PL/SQL, Oracle, is a plus

-Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and a relentless doer

-Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others

-Product-oriented spirit with the ambition to deliver the best experience to end-users

-Fluent in English & Ukrainian 

**Additional Information*
**A few practical details about the role:**

Start: As soon as you are ready!

Location: Kyiv 

Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

Benefits: Competitive package according to profile and experience, combined with a career development plan

 

**What we offer all of our employees:*

The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too. 

A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture  

An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)

State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location

And some other great perks!

Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”. 

Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)

The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment 

Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe 
A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork 

Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment 

Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other

Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands 

**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 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a (list the different steps of the process here). 

 

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.