Confirmed Backend Engineer - Carpool Supply

Confirmed Backend Engineer - Carpool Supply

BlaBlaCar

Paris, France

Your role will be to contribute to facilitating the publication and management of drivers inventory, fostering carpool matching by providing a reliable access to the carpool supply and leveraging geographical intelligence for our backend teams.

You will work within a multi-stack team of 6 backend & 3 frontend engineers. You will collaborate closely with the team's Product Manager and Product Designer to shape and implement features, and with our main consumers in the Demand squads to ensure seamless integration.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the Backend services that serve the whole carpooling inventory on the BlaBlaCar platform
• Take full ownership of substantial features, from technical design and implementation to deployment and monitoring
• Work on strategic inventory topics, including:
  • Validating & storing the publications of our drivers (incl. their route)
  • Serving the internal search engine to display results in the BlaBlaCar app & website
  • Managing the lifecycle of bookings (requested, accepted, confirmed…)
  • Providing key inventory information for all screens in the product requiring them
• Enhance and maintain our critical geo-spatial services that handle:
  • Routing and Places: Computing routes using OSRM and Google Maps
  • Dynamic Search: Powering features like Smart Stopovers via our meeting-points service
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and other engineers to refine requirements and translate business needs into robust technical solutions
• Uphold and improve the team's code quality standards, providing detailed feedback and mentorship through code reviews
• Document the solutions we build and ensure our APIs and services are well understood by consumer teams

Your qualifications

• You have solid experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context
• You have a solid knowledge of the Java language and ecosystem, and have good foundations in software architecture
• You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
• You have significant experience building, deploying, and operating Backend microservices in a production environment
• You value a product-oriented mindset and are focused on delivering business impact when designing software
• You feel comfortable making technical choices and balancing business needs with technical constraints