Software Engineer - Core Tech

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance ridesharing. We are a fast-growing company aiming at building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.blablacar.com/dreamjobs

Job Description

As a Software Engineer interested in performance you will:

  • ensure the good performances of the applications;
  • analyse complex problems related to performance & scalability;
  • propose innovative solutions;
  • share knowledge regarding implementations;
  • work closely with our architects team.

You will join our fine crew of engineers and become a member of our Core Tech Team. We are organized in several agile teams, improving our platform in iterations like 10 times a day.

Qualifications

You feel at home in the world of (PHP|Java)&Mysql and you have a decent professional experience with micro-services architecture and cache systems (reverse/proxy, key-value datastore). Have a working experience with technologies Shell scripting, Python and Cassandra is a plus. You know exactly how to build and deploy an application that runs reliably even under heavy load, you understand the responsibility of working on such projects and they give you a great sense of pride. 

You are eager to learn new things and to share your skills with other team members. You are a team player and know how to embrace the power that our agile work environment assigns to developers. Always the big picture in mind you are able to help shifting our technical choices in the right direction and to offer new solutions if required.

Last but not least you should have a favorite beer, a solid choice that you can explain and defend equally good in English or French, even after several of them ;)

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!
  • Location: Paris HQ
  • Contract: Long-term contract (CDI)
  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact;
  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;
  • Recurring access to technical conferences all over the world;
  • Team Hackathons (complimentary sleeping bag);
  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;
  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;
  • Free ridesharing to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;
  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;
  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;
  • And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs.

What is next?

If you are ready to join us, please send your resume (PDF format) and answers to our questions in English; 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 4 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you for an online test and a phone interview, followed by two in-house interview sessions including a technical test.