Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience
Paris or Remote from France /
Engineering – Back-end /
Permanent
/ Hybrid
About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)
We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.
Your Mission
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience team at BlaBlaCar.
As part of the bigger Foundations team, you’ll join a large group of talented individuals on a mission to provide consistent, easy to use, secured infrastructure, services, and expertise to support BlaBlaCar’s growth and evolution by catering to the needs of our fellow developers.
The Developer Experience team's mission is to remove the friction other engineers may experience when developing and maintaining services, allowing them to focus on delivering business value. As a member of the team, you will develop and document libraries and tools that streamline the development process, and also provide technical support to all BlaBlaCar’s backend teams.
You will report to Ceydric, Engineering Manager of the Developer Experience team and work within a team of 4 engineers. You will collaborate with BlaBlaCar’s backend teams to understand their needs and pain points, and work with them to implement solutions that improve the development process.
For this position, you should have strong communication and collaboration skills, be comfortable walking others through solutions and approaching solutions from a user perspective.
Your Responsibilities
• Create maintainable libraries that address cross-cutting concerns for our backend development teams
• Understand how other engineers work and use their tools
• Support backend teams during decision making and problem solving phases
• Document and explain the solutions we build as a team
• Liaise with both backend and ops teams
• Conduct technical migrations from start to completion
Your qualifications
• You have a solid knowledge of the Java language and ecosystem, and have good foundations in software architecture
• You like knowing how things work under the hood, and are not afraid to look for answers all the way to the source code
• Ideally, you have distributed and maintained libraries or tools, either at work or as open source projects
• You are not afraid to ask questions, and to proactively seek (external) feedback
• You value intuitive and straightforward end user experience when designing software
• You feel comfortable making technical choices, and balancing organizational efficiency and company culture with other constraints
• You are fluent in English
Our technical environment
• Service Oriented Architecture, with over 100 backend services in Java, leveraging Spring Boot
• Inter-service communication using OpenAPI and Kafka
• GCP hosted Kubernetes infrastructure and DevOps stack managed with GitOps practices
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
🌎 An international environment with over 45+ nationalities
⚖️ A hybrid, flexible workplace with family-friendly policies
💡 Learning opportunities via access to training, mentorship, internal development programs, or our weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks and Tech & Product Demos
🤝 Team-building events like our weekly afterworks, breakfasts, our annual Coding Night or Impact Day
🌱 A product and a workplace with a strong commitment to sustainability
We are dedicated to flexibility, growth and well-being at work:
• Full remote possible in the country of the role
• 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?
Here’s what your hiring journey will look like:
• a 45-min video-call with Benjamin, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• a 90-min video call with two of our engineers to run a coding live exercise along with a code review
• a 60-min video call to assess your problem-solving skills through a design exercise with two of our engineers
Our hiring process lasts on average 20-25 days and 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.
